When it was revealed a few weeks back that painfully ubiquitous “voice of a generation” Lena Dunham was being given $3.6 million to write a book of essays — essays the book’s proposal billed as “candid accounts of losing her virginity, trying to eat well (detailed diet journal included), obsessing about death, and so on, along with tips about how to stay focused on work, how not to ruin a potential relationship, and what have you – we, and our commenters, staged a well-deserved revolt, and then we vomited all over our tears.
After all, Girls has replaced Entourage as the show the internet most loves to hate-watch, and some people — namely middle-aged TV critics and 20ish girls who live, or aspire to live, in Brooklyn (along with the dudes who yearn to bone them) — seem absolutely convinced that Dunham is some sort of genius sent from outer space to enlighten us all about what it’s like to be a young person today. Obviously, she is NOT.
With that said, another lady TV star has emerged as a potential anti-Dunham, someone whose book of essays we’d gladly read even though we’ve never read ANYTHING she’s read — because she’s just awesome and we’re sure any book she writes would also be awesome — and that person is Judy Greer. Her first book, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star — for which she reportedly garnered an advance roughly $2.6 million less than Dunham — will hit the shelves in 2014.
Reports the Hollywood Reporter:
The book will include humorous essays with titles like “Celebrities I’ve Peed Next To,” “I’m Not America’s Sweetheart, I’m America’s Best Friend” and “Bad Oscar!” that chronicle Greer’s life from her childhood in the Midwest to her success as an actress in such films and TV shows as Two and a Half Men and 27 Dresses.
“So this is me, just trying, in book form, to introduce myself,” Greer said in a statement.
“This is who I am. This is what I think about things. This is stuff that happened to me, that could have just as easily have happened to you. I think I am really lucky to be where I am in life, but I’ve never really lost that feeling that I don’t fit in, and if you have, will you please email me and tell me how you did it? I’m serious.”
If there’s any justice in the universe, Greer’s book will shame Dunham’s book in a manner best illustrated by the GIF below…
(HT: The Observer)
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I know I’m going to catch hell for this but I actually liked Entourage, and I am most definitely not a bro of any kind.
You’re what is referred to as a “Brothatdontknow”. In some circles this is considered the most dangerous kind of bro.
Don’t sweat it, KevinW. The people who claim to hate Entourage because of its misogyny are the same ones who come in here to make misogynist jokes.
Was misogyny the reason people hated that show? I thought it was all the bad writing, terrible characters, and even worse acting.
I didn’t hate Entourage for how it depicted women. I hated it for how it depicted men.
What Otto said. i’m misogynist as all hell and I still couldn’t stand that piece of shit. Every single character was loathsome.
Yes. Exactly.
I AM QUEENS BOULEVARD.
zomg I nailed that! I’m the best actor ever!
Will I certainly didn’t expect to see Human Tornado dunkacanranaing Evan Bourne when I clicked read more on this story. Awesome.
You never know what you’re gonna get when you click through an UPROXX post, man. You just never know.
It made my day
That PWG human tornado gif was an awesome surprise to some good news about the lovely Judy Greer.
Better just go ahead and make this an audio book.
Her book should be titled “Lopsided Nipples”.
If you ever want to lie and say you’ve read a book, here’s a great candidate. Because no one will have any idea you’re lying because they haven’t read it either.
That’s a good point. I mean, I love Tina Fey but did anyone read “Bossypants”?
That’s a good point. I mean, I love Tina Fey but did anyone read “Bossypants”?
Yo. [raises hand] Also recommended: Patton Oswalt’s “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland.”
Always wanted to see Judy Greer naked, that is all.
Gob would strongly advise against that. And he banged Lucille II.
Hooligan needs to check out Adaption then.
Will read. Might masturbate.
In case they need something for the book jacket.
I want to know what she really thinks about sniffing glue.
Is it okay to like Lena Dunham’s stuff without it meaning that I think she’s the heroine of prophecy who will lead us to a gilded age of human understanding? It’s just a funny show, is all.
High-five, HR. I wish there were more people ’round here capable of enjoying Girls for the largely unremarkable but awkwardly funny comedy that it is, instead of ranting about how fat and ugly they think Lena Dunham is.
i’d like it too as a comedy but my girlfriend loves it for real so i have to be near someone who watches it in a different context, which in turn makes me hate the show that much more. it’s pretty pathetic and awful and i don’t know if lena dunham knows this or if she’s just trying to be REAL DAWG
A Cheryl Tunt book? Yes, please.
“Tum again?”
See what I did there?
I’m glad to see things have turned out so well for Fatty McGoo.
Looks like we’ve got ourselves a wildcard bitches!
Wait, so good news and a fantastic GIF that I didn’t know I needed in my life till now? Pulitzer.
i just realized that she is the voice of cheryl in archer, jeez bees that’s amazing
You are streets ahead
Love it. Love everything about it.
Seriously, why do we have to pit women against each other all the goddamned time? It’s neither clever nor funny. Find a new schtick.
nice tits Judy. Sure has a little mileage on it