Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Anna Fields:

The Girl in the Show, August 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Confessions of a Rebel Debutante, February 2011
Hardcover / e-Book

THE GIRL IN THE SHOW
By: Anna Fields

For fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer?and every other "funny woman"?comes a candid feminist comedy manifesto exploring the sisterhood between women's comedy and women's liberation.

Arcade
August 2017
On Sale: August 8, 2017
392 pages
ISBN: 1510718362
EAN: 9781510718364
Kindle: B01N7NJ4XP
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Non-Fiction | Humor

“I’m not funny at all. What I am is brave.” —Lucille Ball

From female pop culture powerhouses dominating the entertainment landscape to memoirs from today’s most vocal feminist comediennes shooting up the bestseller lists, women in comedy have never been more influential.

Marking this cultural shift, The Girl in the Show explores how comedy and feminism have grown hand in hand to give women a stronger voice in the ongoing fight for equality. From I Love Lucy to SNL to today’s rising cable and web series stars, Anna Fields's entertaining, thoughtful, and candid retrospective combines personal narratives with the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the feminist movement.

With interview subjects such as Abbi Jacobson, Molly Shannon, Mo Collins, and Lizz Winstead—as well as actresses, stand-up comics, writers, producers, and female comedy troupes—Fields shares true stories of wit and heroism from some of our most treasured (and underrepresented) artists. Creating a blueprint for the feminist comedians of tomorrow using lessons of the past, The Girl in the Show encourages readers to revel in—and rebel against—our collective ideas of "women's comedy."