Funny memoirs for high school students
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Funny Biography
Would That Be Funny?
- Growing Up with John Clarke
- By: Lorin Clarke
- Narrated by: Lorin Clarke
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
Overall
Performance
When satirist John Clarke died, in 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. Many of us felt we grew up with him. After all, for the best part of half a century, since he burst into our lives as Fred Dagg in 1974, he was a performer, an actor, a writer, a satirist and as a commentator in both Australia and New Zealand. In this fascinating memoir, Lorin Clarke tells the story of growing up with her famous father, her art historian mother Helen and her little sister Lucia. Much has been written about John Clarke, but this is the insider’s view.
- 5 out of 5 stars
The wonderful funny stories
- By Janet Gahan on 17-03-2024
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10 of the Funniest Biographies and Memoirs by Comedians
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The Netanyahus: The Fictionalized, Funny Biography of a Former First Family
The Netanyahus : An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
By Joshua Cohen
New York Review Books/June, 2021
Reviewed by John Delacourt
September 5, 2021
Fathers and sons. As a theme in contemporary fiction, this particular intergenerational dynamic isn’t exactly having a cultural moment. Surveys show that only 20 percent of the fiction readership in Canada, the US and Britain is male, so that might have something to do with it.
Yet in contemporary politics, the complexities of father-son relationships insidiously thread their way through so many of the narratives of leadership. It’s like a phantom trope of the current campaign for the generation that can remember the first Trudeau era in Canada — and for Conservatives, for those who can remember John O’Toole or Doug Ford Senior from their time in office at Queen’s Park a generation ago. The stories that hold our attention are often about legacies, or tragic flaws that return as fa
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