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Glass, Todd, 1964-
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Glass, Todd, 1964-
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Glass, Todd, 1964-
Glass, Todd, 1964-
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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The
Todd
Glass
situation
: a
bunch
of
lies
about
my
personal
life
and a
bunch
of
true
stories
about
my
30-year
career
in
stand-up
comedy
/
Todd
Glass
with Jonathan Grotenstein.
by
Glass
,
Todd
, 1964-
Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Call #:
792.7028 G549t
Subjects
Glass
,
Todd
, 1964-
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781476714417 (hc.)
147671441X (hc.)
9781476714462 (trade paperback)
1476714460 (trade paperback)
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
viii, 235 p. ; 24 cm
Summary:
A hilarious, poignant memoir from comedian
Todd
Glass
about
his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man--and the reactions and support from his
comedy
pals, from Louis CK to Sarah Silverman. Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy
life
. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix,
life
became more difficult. So
Todd
Glass
decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. It might have been a lot easier had he chosen a profession other than
stand-up
comedy
. By age eighteen,
Todd
was opening for big musical acts like George Jones and Patti LaBelle. His
career
carried him through the Los Angeles
comedy
heyday in the 1980s, its decline in the 1990s, and its rebirth via the alternative
comedy
scene and the explosion in podcasting. But the harder he worked at his craft, the more difficult it became to manage his "
situation
." There were the years of abstinence and half-hearted attempts to "cure" himself. The fake girlfriends so that he could tell relationship jokes onstage. The staged sexual encounters to burnish his reputation offstage. It took a brush with death to cause him to rethink the way he was living his
life
; a rash of suicides among gay teens to convince him that it was finally time to come out to the world. Now,
Todd
has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone--young and old, gay and straight--breathe a little more freely. Peppered with anecdotes from his
life
among
comedy
's greatest headliners and tales of the occasionally insane lengths
Todd
went through to keep a secret that--let's face it--he probably didn't have to keep for as long as he did, The
Todd
Glass
Situation
is a front-row seat to the last thirty plus years of
comedy
history and a deeply
personal
story
about
one man's search for acceptance.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Grotenstein, Jonathan, 1970-
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Biography
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