The Joke Was On Me

Barry Friedman a veteran of 30 years on the comedy road delivers another punchline on standup. Filled with garden-variety kleptomaniacs large rum-drinking Bahamians bitter glorious troubled and sex-addicted women with ankle monitors loquacious drug addicts first-time Vegas lesbians and tall neurotic Jews in sweaters- and these are the sane people-The Joke Was On Me is the story his story of laughs and love and almost fame. Its all true-as much as comedy will allow anyway.You cant go on the road with standup comedian Barry Friedman which is probably good for your health and sanity. But you can feel what it felt like through this funny gritty wondrously detailed and scarily honest book. Dave BarryBarry writes so beautifully he actually made me miss shitty one nighters. Thanks A LOT Barry. Carole Montgomery Host of Funny Women of a Certain AgeHes written a book with all the wisdom and humanity of Alexis de Tocquevilles Democracy in America but with way better jokes and twice as many clitoral piercings. John H. RichardsonI can neither confirm nor deny that I laughed out loud instead of clutching my pearls while reading the racy bits in Barry Friedmans new book The Joke Was on Me. Confessions aside seeing the broken yet still beautiful world through his eyes is cathartic. Jennifer Taub author of Big Dirty Money