Todd Glass

The Todd Glass Situation: a Bunch of Lies About My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories About My 30-year Career in Standup Comedy

Publisher Marketing: A hilarious, poignant memoir from comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man and the reactions and support from his comedy pals, from Louis CK to Sarah Silverman. Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. It might have been a lot easier had he chosen a profession other than stand-up comedy. By age eighteen, Todd was opening for big musical acts like George Jones and Patti LaBelle. His career carried him through the Los Angeles comedy heyday in the 1980s, its decline in the 1990s, and its rebirth via the alternative comedy scene and the explosion in podcasting. But the harder he worked at his craft, the more difficult it became to manage his "situation." There were the years of abstinence and half-hearted attempts to "cure" himself. The fake girlfriends so that he could tell relationship jokes onstage. The staged sexual encounters to burnish his reputation offstage. It took a brush with death to cause him to rethink the way he was living his life; a rash of suicides among gay teens to convince him that it was finally time to come out to the world. Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone young and old, gay and straight breathe a little more freely. Peppered with anecdotes from his life among comedy's greatest headliners and tales of the occasionally insane lengths Todd went through to keep a secret that let's face it he probably didn't have to keep for as long as he did, "The Todd Glass Situation" is a front-row seat to the last thirty plus years of comedy history and a deeply personal story about one man's search for acceptance." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2014 (EAN 9781476714417, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 06/01/2014 pg. 52 (EAN 9781476714417, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/30/2014 (EAN 9781476714417, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Glass, Todd Todd Glass is a stand-up comedian and host of The Todd Glass Show, a popular podcast on the Nerdist Network. Contributor Bio:  Wyman, Oliver Oliver Wyman, a native New Yorker, has appeared on stage as well as in film, and television. He is one of the founders of New York City's Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning "reality play" "Charlie Victor Romeo" and A. R. McElhinney's cult classic film "A Chronicle of Corpses". He also lent his voice to several episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oliver's work as a narrator extends to over 150 audiobooks and has won many him awards, including Audie awards for his reading of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, "It's Not About the Bike", and Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat". He also read James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces", Tim Dorsey's "Atomic Lobster", and David Weber's "By Schism Rent Asunder". Oliver has won five Audie Awards from the Audio Publisher's Association, fourteen Earphone Awards from "AudioFile" "Magazine", and two Listen Up Awards from "Publisher's Weekly. "Oliver was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by "AudioFile Magazine". Contributor Bio:  Grotenstein, Jonathan Jonathan Grotenstein, a writer and professional poker player, is the author of God Hates Us All and coauthor, with Phil Gordon, of Poker: The Real Deal.