Abbi Jacobson
Autor de I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
Sobre El Autor
Abbi Jacobson was born in 1984, in Wayne, Pennsylvania. She has a degree in fine arts and a minor in video from the Maryland Institute College of Arts and trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. She has worked for AOL Artist. Her books include Color This Book: New York mostrar más City, Color This Book: San Francisco, and Carry This Book. She is one of the stars of the Comedy Central series, Broad City. She also is one of the series creators and executive producers, (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Abbi Jacobson
Broad City: The Complete Series 2 copias
Broad City: Season 2 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1984-02-01
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- comedian
producer
non-fiction author
screenwriter
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 371
- Popularidad
- #64,992
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 21
1. It made me laugh. A lot of it is rambling, but at least it's mostly funny rambling.
2. I totally related to a lot of Abbi's ridiculous, negative self-talk. (Not the stuff about being incapable of being in love, but the stuff about being a guilt-ridden overprivileged white woman who shops too often at Whole Foods.)
3. I became intensely curious about the identity of the woman Abbi dated and broke up with so I asked the Internet and it pointed to Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia. That's fun even if it's not true. It certainly lent the story some (imaginary) depth to be able to fill in an actual person for the otherwise nameless cipher girlfriend.
4. I'm a big fan of Broad City and this gave some insight into its creation and the relationship between Abbi and Ilana.
Things I did not like about this book:
1. The pointless rambling parts that were not especially funny. I skimmed through a bunch of it.
2. Intrusive negative self-talk is actually kind of sad and I'm glad Abbi's in therapy and I probably should be too.
3. I understand the need to protect the identity of the ex-girlfriend, but it's hard to care about the breakup when there are so few details about the relationship. There were a lot of generalities that are true of practically any significant romantic relationship and that does not make for super compelling writing.
Overall, I think there are certainly better non-fiction memoir-ish books by funny ladies out there. My favorites are Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Samantha Irby, and Scaachi Koul.… (más)