A raw, poignant, and often hilarious look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic icon From his harrowing childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse, to a lifetime of alcoholism and self-mutilation, psychiatric hospitalizations and misdiagnoses, to the peak of fame and succ
God, If You're Not Up There, I'm Fucked: Tales of stand-up, Saturday Night Live, and other mind-altering mayhem
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2011
- Leaves
- 288
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
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A raw, poignant, and often hilarious look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic icon From his harrowing childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse, to a lifetime of alcoholism and self-mutilation, psychiatric hospitalizations and misdiagnoses, to the peak of fame and success as the longest-tenured cast member of Saturday Night Live (where his hilarious dead-on impressions of Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Chris Matthews, and a hundred other prominent figures ushered him to the peak of stardom), Darrell Hammond delves into the darkest corners of his life, both in front of and behind the camera, with brutal honesty and fierce comic wit.
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A raw, poignant, and often hilarious look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic icon From his harrowing childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse, to a lifetime of alcoholism and self-mutilation, psychiatric hospitalizations and misdiagnoses, to the peak of fame and succe
Author's note -- Prologue -- The hall -- The golden years -- There's something wrong here -- From Hell to Hell's Kitchen -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times -- God, if you're not up there, I'm f*cked -- Blood on the floor -- What you didn't see -- You want me to go where? -- I'll
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