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
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Publisher Description
A “triumphant” (The New York Times) memoir from beloved comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man, and the support from his illustrious collection of comedy pals.
As Todd Glass tells it, 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 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 convinced him that it was finally time to come out to the world.
Welcome to The Todd Glass Situation, your front-row seat to more than thirty years of comedy history and a deeply personal story about one man’s search for acceptance. This is “a humorous, lively, and humane memoir” (Kirkus Reviews).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Comedian and host of the podcast The Todd Glass Show delivers a reliably funny and entertaining memoir about his path in stand-up comedy, early obsession with landscaping and, primarily, his long struggle to come out as a gay man, even to his closest friends. "I couldn't even say the word," he writes of his discomfort talking about being gay until a heart attack triggers him to open up. He also experiences early setbacks in education, including time in the "resource room" for being dyslexic and ADHD, but finds a second home at Comedy Works, a Philadelphia club, and his adventures and successes in the stand-up world begin. He befriends renowned comedians such as Sarah Silverman and Louis CK, becomes an opener for Patti LaBelle, and comes out nationally on Marc Maron's podcast, WTF?. Concluding with an advice section to help others, Glass' engaging delivery reflects his honest quest to live openly and abandon his early embarrassment about his sexuality. This memoir will appeal to Glass' fan base, as well as readers looking for stories of self-acceptance and triumph over shame.
Customer Reviews
It doesn't get better than this.
Honest, open, hilarious, brilliant -- these are just four of the many wonderful adjectives that describe Todd Glass and his book. Everyone should read The Todd Glass Situation. Everyone. You will not regret this read. If you do, you can take it up with Daniel Kinno.
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