“I didn’t perform any of it in front of an audience, which is one of the more interesting and terrifying things about writing a book. You really have no idea whether or not what you’re writing is funny.”
Michael Showalter talks comedy memoirs. (via PW)
You can read The Rumpus interview with Showalter from 2009 here, in which he discusses “writing an ‘important’ memoir about not being able to write an important memoir.”
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