Lizz Free or Die: Essays Audiobook (Free)

Lizz Winstead, co-creator from the Daily Show and one of today’s most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens an excellent account of how she discovered her comedic voice.

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to discover her own voice, both like a comedian and as a woman, and how humor became her most powerful weapon in confronting life’s issues.

Growing up in the Midwest, the youngest child of conservative Catholic parents, about Lizz Free or Die: Essays Winstead learned early in her life how the straightforward issues she posed to various authority figures around her-her parents, her parish priest, even an anti-abortion counselor -prompted many startled appears and uncomfortable silences, but few answers. Her questions rattled people because they revealed the inconsistencies and hypocrisies in individuals and organizations she confronted. Yet she didn’t let that stop her from seeking her dreams.

Funny and biting, honest and poignant, this no-holds-barred collection offers an in-depth check out the life of 1 of today’s most influential comic voices. In writing about her years as a child longing to be a priest, her function in developing The Daily Display, and of her often difficult habit of diving into everything mind first, asking questions later (leading to multiple rescue-dog adoptions and travel disasters), Lizz Winstead provides tapped an outrageous and heartfelt vein of the all-too-human comedy.