The Todd Glass Situation: Lies About My Personal Life and True Stories About My Stand-Up Comedy Career
✍ Scribed by Glass, Todd
- Book ID
- 108645737
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781476714417
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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...