You're Better Than Me: A Memoir – An Outrageous Memoir of a Tomboy Finding Her Voice and Her People Through Comedy

In the spirit of Mindy Kaling, Kelly Oxford, and Sarah Silverman, a compulsively readable and outrageously funny memoir of growing up as a fish out of water, finding your voice, and embracing your inner crazy-person, from popular actress, writer, and comedian Bonnie McFarlane. It 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 like it is, and lays bare all of her smart (and her not-so-smart) decisions along her 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 David Letterman, and through to her infamous “c” word bit on Last Comic Standing, You’re Better Than Me is her funny and outrageous trip through the good, bad, and ugly of her life in comedy. McFarlane doesn’t always keep her mouth shut when she should, but at least she makes people laugh. And that’s all that matters, right?Fish Out of Water Story: From a Canadian farm without running water to the comedy clubs of New York and LA, McFarlane’s journey is one of hilarious and cringe-worthy culture shock.Humorous Essays: Read the brutally honest and laugh-out-loud essays that explore everything from having six of the seven signs of a serial killer to why homemade ketchup is the work of the devil.Women in Comedy: McFarlane pulls no punches describing the triumphs and humiliations of being a woman in the boys’ club of stand-up, including her infamous "c" word moment on Last Comic Standing.Books by Comedians: Perfect for fans of Mindy Kaling and Sarah Silverman, this memoir delivers the same sharp wit and unflinching honesty that made Anthony Bourdain a champion of her work. Read more