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Lädt ... I Am the New Blackvon Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I was totally blindsided by Tracy Morgan's I Am the New Black. I took a look at his goofy face and exposed belly on the cover, dressed in an expensive suit jacket and tie with bunny ears, with the ridiculous title and the name written enormous in golden lights above, and thought: This is going to be hilarious. Maybe he'd even write it in character as Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock! I feel bad for saying that I was disappointed to see that this was not the case. Why not have a serious autobiography of a funny man? I'm sure there are plenty of folks that would want to read about the trials and tribulations of a young kid growing up in Brooklyn and what shaped his life into what we see on television today. Unfortunately for me, this is not what I thought I was signing up for when I downloaded the audiobook. Tracy Morgan's life has been tragic, in a way that many lives are under the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal state. His father died of AIDS from a heroin addiction picked up in Vietnam. His mother gave him away to his grandmother, who also died when he was young. He experienced early childhood sexual abuse from a babysitter. He sold crack, but since his heart wasn't really in it, he turned to comedy. With some help from some very understanding women in his life, he has succeeded greatly in this venture. This book is for you if you are sincerely interested in Tracy Morgan's life, not if you enjoy his comedy. I love Tracy Morgan. Nobody makes me laugh harder. I listened to this book on Audible read by Tracy, and the story of his Brooklyn childhood where his father was a drug addict was heartbreaking. His message is young black people can overcome their background and become successful. I just wish my foster kids would listen to his story. This book was fairly informative about the entertainment and black comedy industries although I felt like a lot of information was missing about Tracy Morgan's personal experiences. A lot of these experiences seemed to be loaded with filler words and redundant details just to take up space in his memoir. Overall, it was entertaining and, as expected, really funny. Zeige 5 von 5
[Morgan's] extremely proud and mostly candid, but the story of his first 40 years is short on details and long on clichéd advice, which can make for a frustrating read.
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian. Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose turbulent personal life often mirrors that of his fictional alter ego? Is he Chico Divine, the life of the party-any party, anytime, anywhere-getting ladies pregnant everywhere he goes? Or is he a soulful, tender family man who emerged from a hardscrabble ghetto upbringing and, against all odds, achieved superstardom, raised a solid family, prevailed over a collection of lethal bad habits, and is still ascending new heights and coming into his own? The answer is: Tracy Morgan is all that. And a bag of potato chips with a 50¢ soda. When he was just a boy living in the Tompkins Projects in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, being funny was about survival. With the right snap, Tracy could shut down the playground bullies who picked on him and his physically disabled older brother. And with a wild enough prank, he could exact revenge on whoever stole his Pumas at the community pool. Later, being funny was about escape-from the untouchable sadness of his father's death, from the desperation of the drug dealer's trade, from the life-and-death battles waged on the streets of the South Bronx in the age of crack. But these days being funny is about living his dream-a dream born in the comedy clubs of Harlem and realized on shows like Martin and Saturday Night Live, where he was a cast member for seven years, and in movies like The Longest Yard and Half-Baked. With brutal honesty and his trademark take-no-prisoners humor, Tracy tells the story of his rise to fame, with all its highs and its many lows-from the very public battles with alcohol and diabetes that threatened both his career and his life to the private and poignant end of his twenty-year marriage. In his singularly warped and brilliant way he muses on family, love, sex, race, politics, ambition, and what it takes to bring the funny. Hilarious, inspiring, searing, and touching, I Am the New Black is a fascinating peek inside the minds of one of the most compelling and defining comedians of our time. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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That being said, I didn't think this well-written at all. I don't know if the physical book would be better, but if it's written how the audio is spoken, leave it alone and stick to the audio. I'm not sure I can necessarily recommend it like I normally would. I really felt connected to the man after listening to this, but if you are wanting a high quality memoir, this isn't it. I'm giving it 4 stars because I walked away feeling as though the comedian let me in on his inner most secrets.
If you like audios where the author sounds like he is talking to YOU, where you are left feeling intimately connected, if you like Tracey Morgan enough to listen to him narrate his life for 4 hours, then give this a try. If not, skip it. ( )