Dirty Laundry: Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny.
About this ebook
This hilarious collection, featuring a foreword by Arrested Development's Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely, includes some of their best confessions. It provides an inside scoop on Hollywood, including stories on mishaps at the Emmys, writing for popular shows, being put in a sleeper hold by Hulk Hogan, growing up in famous families, and what it’s like to play Jan Brady.
Funny, embarrassing, or dirty (or a combination thereof), but always brutally honest, Dirty Laundry shines a voyeuristic light on the underbellies of the people who have sold their souls to the entertainment biz.
Authors include Maggie Rowe, Andersen Gabrych, Doug Benson, Kevin Nealon, Richard Belzer, Amy Stiller, Laura Silverman, Mary Birdsong, Taylor Negron, Randy Sklar, Kelly Carlin-McCall, Jennifer Elise Cox, Tom Saunders, Eileen Conn, Carlos Kotkin, Eddie Pepitone, Mark Evan Jackson, C. Brian Smith, Davis McHenry, Matt Price, David Landsberg, David Chrisman, Keith Blaney, Andrea Abbate, Jonathan Schmock, Jen Sincero, Claudia Lonow, Jackie Kashian, Shaz Bennet, B. Mark Seabrooks, Stirling Gardner, and Drew Droege.
About the author
Maggie Rowe produces (with Jaclyn Lafer) the ten-year-running stage show, “Sit ‘n’ Spin” (created by Jill Soloway). She is the creator of the acclaimed religious satires “Hollywood Hell House” and “Hollywood Purity Ball.” Most recently, Maggie created (with Andersen Gabrych) “Pyrasphere,” Hollywood’s fastest growing new religion and a documentary about Pyrasphere entitled Bright Day! She lives with her husband Jim, whom she is immensely fond of.
Andersen Gabrych is a Northern California native. He’s written Detective Comics, Batman, Batgirl, Catwoman, and Omega Men for DC Comics, and is the author of the original graphic novel, Fog Town. As an actor he appeared most notably in the award-winning Edge of Seventeen and at HBO’s Aspen Comedy Festival. He currently lives in L.A. with his cat, Moses, and is the co-creator of Pyrasphere, “Hollywood’s fastest growing new religion,” and the subsequent documentary Bright Day! about this fictitious spiritual movement.
Eddie Pepitone has been a stand-up comic and comedic actor for thirty years. Eddie has been on every late night show either performing his stand-up or playing a crazy character. He is also a thoughtful writer on our continuing decline into depravity—his and ours. Eddie is currently spotted on Facebook, Twitter, and Eddiepepitone.com. He is Jackie Gleason on acid.
A Saturday Night Live alum, Kevin Nealon has also appeared in Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, Anger Management, Grandma's Boy, Get Smart, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Larry Sanders Show. He current stars as Doug Wilson in the Showtime hit series Weeds.
Laura Silverman first caught the attention of television viewers with her memorable vocal performance as the bitingly droll receptionist also named Laura on the popular animated sitcom Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. She followed that with turns in the movies Half Baked, State and Main, Jesus is Magic, and Love Shack, as well as numerous television shows including King of Queens, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Home Movies, and was a series regular on the cult HBO comedy series The Comeback. In 2007, she joined her sister on the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Program, currently in its third season. In 2008, Silverman guest-starred opposite Hugh Laurie on Fox's hit series House, and she stars in the upcoming feature film Cummings Farm. She performs live comedy and original music regularly in Los Angeles and writes an advice column for HEEB Magazine. She was named one of the “Top 100 People of 2008” by USA Today.
Amy Stiller is an actress and performer who has worked in theatre, film, and television, performs her own comedy, hangs out with gay men, and is ready for love. Notable film credits among many include The Day Trippers and Chump Change, where she plays a jealous ex-girlfriend who bitches out Tracy Lords in a bowling alley in Milwaukee, directed by Steve Burrows. TV: King Of Queens, playing Judy Davis as The Bride Of Frankenstein on The Ben Stiller Show, and a short film called Amy Stiller's Breast, among others. Regional theatre includes lead roles in: The Guys, The Heidi Chronicles, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, I Ought To Be In Pictures, Beau Jest, among other plays. New York theatre credits include her proud Off-Broadway debut in Down The Garden Paths, written by her mother Anne Meara. www.amystiller.com. It's coming.
Mary Birdsong is an actress (and sometime writer) who has appeared on Reno 911, The Daily Show, the films Killers, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, Adventureland, and Made of Honor. For her Broadway debut (in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me!), she won a Theatre World Award. Off-Broadway she starred opposite Jane Lynch in Love, Loss and What I Wore, (by Nora & Delia Ephron), and in Elaine May's Adult Entertainment. Obsessed with Judy Garland, Mary wrote the one-woman show Judy Speaks in which she starred as the woman. (Guess who.) Mary is writing a rock musical called 99 Cent Whore. She lives in two cities (NY and LA) with two pussies.
Richard Belzer is an American standup comedian, writer, and actor, who played Sgt. John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Richard has written many books, including UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe. Richard has a wonderful wife, two awesome children, and a whole bunch o’ dogs.
Randy Sklar is part of a comedy team along with his twin brother, Jason. The Sklars have appeared in television shows such as Law & Order, Becker, Providence, The Oblongs (as conjoined twin brothers Biff and Chip Oblong), Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. They also regularly appear on VH1 specials such as I Love the '80s. Most recently, they hosted the show Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic.
An accomplished, actor, standup comedian, and playwright, Taylor Negron has starred in his own HBO special and has appeared on The Tonight Show. His films include Easy Money, Punchline, Stuart Little, and The Last Boy Scout. He wrote Gangster Planet, a domestic comedy set during the Los Angeles Riots that was "Critics Choice” by The Los Angeles Times. His essays are currently published in the anthology Love West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Taylor is one of the founding members of the Un–Cabaret dubbed “The Mother Show of Alternative Comedy” by the Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing writer to the Huffington Post and keeps NO PETS.
