It’s Not Funny Being A Bedwetter

Celebrity books are often complete wastes of paper. The star usually has nothing to say, but it willing to stretch that nothing to 300 pages if it means a nice, hefty cheque.

Sarah Silverman recognizes this, and starts The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee explaining that this is exactly why she is writing this book. As she is a comedian, I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t.

It begins with some funny stories about how obscene little Sarah was as a child. Suddenly, before the laughter has dissipated, her older brother died in his crib. At first it seems like a sick joke but as she continues you realize this is a true story, inexplicably tossed in with a collection of funny anecdotes. It is disturbing and upsetting. I wanted to stop reading.

The next section is about how she wet her bed well into her teens. It is genuinely touching to hear about her confusion and desire to grow-up and fit in with her friends. She finally tosses the jokes to become honest, and the result is moving.

She should have stopped there. The final part of the book is about comedy. In relating her rise to stardom, she name drops more than Entertainment Tonight at the Academy Awards. 

Then she embarks upon the oddest journey with her readers. She explains the situation surrounding every controversial joke she ever made and then defends her actions. There is just a string of poor-me stories with no underlying connection save her desperate desire that you like her. It is boring and self-indulgent.

The book has no point, a fact she is happy to explain to her readers gleefully and repeatedly. It is as badly written and disjointed as a 1000 word essay on a subject a student only knows one fact about. It is all filler, and her editor should be fired.

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