TY - BOOK AU - Clery,Laura TI - Idiot: life stories from the creator of Help Helen Smash SN - 9781982101947 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Gallery Books KW - Clery, Laura. KW - Women comedians KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Internet personalities KW - Essays KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographies N1 - Oh, the places I've peed -- High school Hammer time -- My summer of (possibly too much) freedom -- How to ignore a hundred red flags -- The Damon inside -- A spoonful of sugar -- Look, Mom! I'm on TV! -- New beginnings (but, like, for real) -- Two apartments and a home -- Maggie: cat -- Walking through fear N2 - Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills! Now, in her first-ever book, Laura recounts how she went from being a dangerously impulsive, broke, unemployable, suicidal, cocaine-addicted narcissist, crippled by fear and hopping from one toxic romance to the next...to a more-happy-than-not, somewhat rational, meditating, vegan yogi with good credit, a great marriage, a fantastic career, and four unfortunate-looking rescue animals. Still, above all, Laura remains an amazingly talented, adorable, and vulnerable, self-described...Idiot ER -