The Resource Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald
Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald
Resource Information
The item Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "As its title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life--more or less--from his origins in a rural small town in the-back-of-beyond Canada to an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search, to his possibly incredible account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run as the anchor of Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." But Based on a True Story is much more than a memoir, it's a hilarious, inspired, very meta imagining of his life, as told to a deeply disturbed ghost writer whose teetering sanity and bruised ego threaten to take down the entire narrative--and possibly the comic with it. Peppered with classic jokes and long mythologized Hollywood stories, this wildly adventurous, tense, totally original, and absurdly funny memoir turns the conventional "comic's memoir" on its head and leaves the reader delightfully off kilter"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 240 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812993622
- Label
- Based on a true story : a memoir
- Title
- Based on a true story
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Norm Macdonald
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "As its title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life--more or less--from his origins in a rural small town in the-back-of-beyond Canada to an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search, to his possibly incredible account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run as the anchor of Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." But Based on a True Story is much more than a memoir, it's a hilarious, inspired, very meta imagining of his life, as told to a deeply disturbed ghost writer whose teetering sanity and bruised ego threaten to take down the entire narrative--and possibly the comic with it. Peppered with classic jokes and long mythologized Hollywood stories, this wildly adventurous, tense, totally original, and absurdly funny memoir turns the conventional "comic's memoir" on its head and leaves the reader delightfully off kilter"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-2021
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Macdonald, Norm
- Dewey number
-
- 792.7/6028092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN2308.M23
- LC item number
- A3 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Macdonald, Norm
- Comedians
- Actors
- Label
- Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald
- Bar code
-
- 31223117791617
- 31223117791534
- 31223117791625
- 31223117791765
- 31223117791773
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 240 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812993622
- Lccn
- 2016014108
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- bro-upg20160908-054
- bro-cust20160912-054
- System control number
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- 936347278
- 936347278
- (OCoLC)936347278
- Label
- Based on a true story : a memoir, Norm Macdonald
- Bar code
-
- 31223117791617
- 31223117791534
- 31223117791625
- 31223117791765
- 31223117791773
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 240 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812993622
- Lccn
- 2016014108
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- bro-upg20160908-054
- bro-cust20160912-054
- System control number
-
- 936347278
- 936347278
- (OCoLC)936347278
Library Locations
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Bernal Heights LibraryBorrow it500 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94110, US37.738862 -122.416132
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Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial LibraryBorrow it1 Jose Sarria Court, San Francisco, CA, 94114, US37.764084 -122.431821
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Richmond/Senator Milton Marks LibraryBorrow it351 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94118, US37.781855 -122.468054
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San Francisco Public LibraryBorrow it100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, US37.779376 -122.415795
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