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When I was your age : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown

Title
When I was your age : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown / Kenan Thompson with Dibs Baer.
Author
Thompson, Kenan
Publication
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]

Details

Additional Authors
Baer, Dibs
Description
viii, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
  • "When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson"--
  • Thompson provides an ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and learning from the school of hard knocks. He is the longest-ever-service cast member of Saturday Night Live, as well as the survivor of early 2000s television programs and movies. But Thompson is also a dad to two girls, offering advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. From his biggest mistakes to his most triumphant victories, there's something here for everybody! -- adapted from jacket
Alternative Title
Life lessons, funny stories and questionable parenting advice from a professional clown
Subject
  • Thompson, Kenan
  • Comedians > United States > Biography
  • African American comedians > Biography
  • Actors > United States > Biography
  • African American actors > Biography
  • Conduct of life
  • Comiques > États-Unis > Biographies
  • Comiques noirs américains > Biographies
  • Acteurs > États-Unis > Biographies
  • Acteurs noirs américains > Biographies
  • Morale pratique
  • ethics (philosophical concept)
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • Actors
  • African American actors
  • African American comedians
  • Comedians
  • Conduct of life
  • Comedians > Biography
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Biographies
Contents
Prologue -- All that & a bag of chips -- Back in the day -- Tuesday is a church day, too! -- Being a dad sucked the cool right out of me -- How watching "programs" can become a career -- Your daddy was a child star (and he made it out alive) -- Behind the scenes: Black is still beautiful -- The huggable cutie -- I'm glad I went for broke. For real -- There's a thin line between perseverance and delusion -- I want you to be proud of me, too -- I'm back to singling and mingling -- Always meet your heroes -- Just like cookies need milk, you need a partner in crime -- Everything I need to know about life, I learn from my girls -- For those who made me laugh, I salute you -- Epilogue: A change is gonna come. Probably. Acknowledgments.
ISBN
  • 9780063348066
  • 0063348063
LCCN
2023023720
OCLC
YBP 2023023720
Author
Thompson, Kenan, author.
Title
When I was your age : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown / Kenan Thompson with Dibs Baer.
Publisher
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Baer, Dibs, author.
Other Form:
Online version: Thompson, Kenan. When I was your age First edition. New York : HarperCollins, 2023 9780063348080 (DLC) 2023023721
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