Get Out Tonight: the Very Funny Lauren Weedman @ Neumos
Sometimes when you start going off about how *hysterically funny* someone is, people take it as a dare not to laugh. But Lauren Weedman cracks us up, and we don't care who knows it.
Tonight she's reading from her new book, A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body (Tales from a Life of Cringe). It's a free reading, 7pm at Neumos, 21 and over only.
If you want to prep beforehand, here's a Seattle Times interview with Weedman, and here's an actual excerpt from the book -- about her Daily Show stint/trainwreck -- in the Stranger. Here's a sample to set the tone:
Finally, after all the years of striving, I can relax. No more living like a girl-baby born to a Chinese family, having to prove that I am worth something. ("Please don't drown me in the river. I may not be strong and I may not be smart, but hand me that noodle and I'll make a joke with it. Please, let me live! Let me live!")For the obsessives, here's the LA Weekly article on her, which contains the statement, "In Seattle, she is loved."I am going to be allowed to live.
And not only that, my worth will be well-established. Gone are the days of my telling every gross personal detail about herpes scares and porn-addicted boyfriends peeing in plants. I can now just sit quietly. Like the pretty girls do. (And the depressed girls.) Everything is going to change.
