Lizz free or die
Subtitle: essays
By: Lizz Winstead
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594487026
Subjects: HUMOR / Form / Essays; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Comedians; Biography
Description: "Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of  today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens  a brilliant account of how she discovered her comedic voice.In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly  recounts how she fought to find her own voice, both as a comedian  and as a woman, and how humor became her most powerful weapon in  confronting life's challenges.Growing up in the Midwest, the youngest child of conservative  Catholic parents, Winstead learned early in her life that the  straightforward questions she posed to various authority figures  around her-her parents, her parish priest, even an anti-abortion  counselor -prompted many startled looks and uncomfortable silences,  but few answers. Her questions rattled people because they exposed  the inconsistencies and hypocrisies in the people and institutions  she confronted. Yet she didn't let that stop her from pursuing her  dreams. Funny and biting, honest and poignant, this no-holds-barred  collection gives an in-depth look into the life of one of today's  most influential comic voices. In writing about her childhood  longing to be a priest, her role in developing The Daily Show, and  of her often problematic habit of diving into everything head first,  asking questions later (resulting in multiple rescue-dog adoptions  and travel disasters), Lizz Winstead has tapped an outrageous and  heartfelt vein of the all-too-human comedy"--