You're Better Than Me A Memoir

Bonnie McFarlane, Anthony Bourdain

eBook - 2016

"McFarlane has guts, heart, jokes, and plenty of wise words in this hilarious journey through the dark heart of the entertainment industry." —Publishers WeeklyIt took Bonnie McFarlane a lot of time, effort, and tequila to get to where she is today. Before she starred on Last Comic Standing and directed her own films, she was an inappropriately loud tomboy growing up on her parents' farm in Cold Lake, Canada, wetting her pants during standardized tests and killing chickens. Desperate to find "her people"—like-minded souls who wouldn't judge her because she was honest, ruthless, and, okay, sometimes really rude—Bonnie turned to comedy. In her explosively funny and no-holds-barred memoir, Bonnie tells it lik...e it is, and lays bare all of her smart (and not-so-smart) decisions along the way to finding her friends and her comedic voice.From fistfights in elementary school to riding motorcycles to the World Famous Comic Strip, to Late Night with... more