2.5
dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

This was okay, I suppose. I didn't hate it, but I also definitely didn't love it.
It's essentially just a set of loosely connected memoir-esque essays about noteable moments or periods of Zimmerman's life. As I'm not familiar with his comedy (I only picked this book up due to the title and interesting cover) and if it wasn't explicitly noted in the book I would have had no idea this guy was a comedian. I suppose there were a couple parts that were humorous, but having read some fantastic memoirs by other comedians that had me actually laughing out loud (Mindy Kaling, Seth Rogan to name my top two) this was really disappointing. There were some moments of real emotional gravity (#2 as many have pointed out, is deeply moving) but for the most part I was just getting through it.