{"id":567,"date":"2011-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=567"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T01:31:44","slug":"the-bedwetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/22\/the-bedwetter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bedwetter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Sarah Silverman<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Faber&amp;Faber<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times , January 22nd 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sarah Silverman is one of a cohort of American comedians that includes Jon Stewart, Chris Rock and Ray Romano that worked their way up through the Comedy Strip in the late 80s and early 90s.\u00a0 Her memoir, <em>The Bedwetter<\/em> is a curious amalgam of anecdote, exposition and advice on subjects as diverse as what who not to joke about (anything to do with rich, blonde, white girls), to the best way to handle drugs, alcohol, sex and fart jokes (Make It a Treat). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Written in a light and self-deprecating manner, I could imagine many of the episodic chapters being incorporated into a stand-up routine.\u00a0 She discusses the shame of enuresis (from which she suffered until her late teens), and a teenage period of debilitating depression with a wry and insightful humour that will give hope to others struggling with similar experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Although I don\u2019t share her love of scatological humour, she has some pertinent points to make about the role of satire in revealing the hidden prejudices in society.\u00a0 Later sections, dealing with her career were less engaging, partly because I am unfamiliar with the American comedy scene, and partly because at 39 few people have enough material to justify a full-length memoir.\u00a0 Amusing enough (visions of her stabbing Al Franken in the head with a pencil during a Saturday Night Live rewrite meeting have stayed with me for some time), but unless you are a Silverman fan, probably not worth the bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Silverman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review January 22nd 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[126,417,368,18,127],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-126","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction","tag-odt","tag-sarah-silverman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}