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God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked
Darrell Hammond
Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem
Harper
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 006206455X
EAN: 9780062064554
Kindle: B004X2J6XI
Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor | Non-Fiction Memoir
A raw, poignant, and often hilarious look inside the
troubled life and mind of an American comic icon From his harrowing childhood filled with physical and
emotional abuse at the hands of his parents, to a lifetime
of alcoholism and self-mutilation, psychiatric
hospitalizations, and misdiagnoses, to the peak of fame and
success as the longest-tenured cast member of Saturday
Night Live, Darrell Hammond delves into the darkest
corners of his life, both in front of and behind the camera,
with brutal honesty and fierce comic wit. On the back of his
hilarious dead-on impressions of Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney,
Chris Matthews, and a hundred other prominent figures,
Hammond was invited into the inner sanctums of the country's
political leaders, including three presidents, all the while
suffering debilitating and largely undiagnosed mental
anguish that resulted in horrifying flashbacks, shocking
benders, a hair-raising stint in a Bahamian jail, and
ultimately a dark night in a Harlem crack house. His long
fight for sobriety, filled with heartbreaking relapses, was
propelled by a desire to do right by his young daughter and
to set the record straight about how he fell so low while
achieving such heights. Throughout, Hammond lays bare the
real inner workings of an iconic television show.
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