Bonnie McFarlane

Bonnie's life is very interesting and I can see she's worked really hard to be the comedian that she is (although she jokes that Malcolm Gladwell is an asshole for saying you need 10,000 hours to be proficient - comedians only get 3 minutes on the stage at the beginning, I'll be in my seventies before getting to 10,000 hours). But you can see in the previous chapters that she really was spending 80 hours a week thinking and writing about comedy as well as testing new material on the circuit).
My only complaint was that the delivery on the audio book could have been better, felt like she was reading.… (plus d'informations)

Bonnie McFarlane is a comedian I'm not familiar with, but she's had a successful career on HBO and David Letterman, as a comedy writer, and performing in New York City and Los Angeles. Lots of clips of her on YouTube. Her story begins on an impoverished farm in northern Alberta, through an awkward childhood, and then starting out in comedy in Vancouver before heading south to the States for many more years of trying to break into the business.

Why I Read This Now: Two very different friends both raved about this new book.

Rating: I didn't like it as much as they did. No doubt, there were some very funny parts, but the self-deprecating humour started to grate, and at times I found her a bit on the mean side. The final bit of the book was about political correctness and censorship, and sort of lessened my impression of her being a bit mean.

Recommended for: readers who like funny memoirs and people interested in how to break into comedy in North America.… (plus d'informations)