I Know I Am, But What Are You?

By: Samantha Bee

Narrated by: Samantha Bee

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from the much-loved Samantha Bee, the Most Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Critics have called her “sweet, adorable, and vicious.” But there is so much more to be said about Samantha Bee. For one, she’s Canadian - whatever that means. And now, she opens up for the very first time about her checkered Canadian past. With charming candor, she admits to her Lennie from Of Mice and Men-style love of baby animals, her teenage crime spree as one-half of a car-thieving couple (Bonnie and Clyde in Bermuda shorts and braces), and the fact that strangers seem compelled to show her their genitals. She also details her intriguing career history, which includes stints working in a frame store, at a penis clinic, and as a Japanese anime character in a touring children’s show.

Samantha delves into all these topics and many more in this thoroughly hilarious, unabashedly frank collection of personal essays. Whether detailing the creepiness that ensues when strangers assume that your mom is your lesbian lover, or recalling her girlhood crush on Jesus (who looked like Kris Kristofferson and sang like Kenny Loggins), Samantha turns the spotlight on her own imperfect yet highly entertaining life as relentlessly as she skewers hapless interview subjects on The Daily Show. She shares her unique point of view on a variety of subjects as wide ranging as her deep affinity for old people, to her hatred of hot ham. It’s all here, in irresistible prose that will leave you in stitches and eager for more.

©2010 Samantha Bee (P)2010 Simon & Schuster, Inc

dark, funny in an awkward way

a book filled with all the things we are typically never honest about. i found it funny, entertaining, and I also cringed at 75% of it. Damn Samantha’s filter is broken. thanks for the honest portrayal of growing up 80s and average.

Funny but felt incomplete

Samantha Bee perfectly narrates a series of humorous vignettes from her youth. But the book seemingly randomly ends somewhere in her late 20s? Feels like it should have had about 5 more chapters!

Very enjoyable

My daughter and I started listening to this on a road trip and it wasn't right for for the moment. But I restarted it on my own. A bit of a slow start but then it's a hilarious listen. Highly recommend.

Not my cup of tea.

I like Samantha Bee on her show but this didn't really do it for me. She gives a good performance, but the stories just weren't funny to me. i'm.sure it's hilarious to others.

Your new Aunt Bee

I'm a fan of the Daily Show, and I've liked Samantha Bee (especially when she wears that sexy retainer), but I wasn't expecting to love her book as much as I did. I was prepared for yet another collection of 'funny' observations - but that's not what "I Know I Am..." is. It's a genuine memoir of a non-traditional childhood, and the picture it paints was familiar to me in many ways. If you've lived a few decades, they'll likely be familiar to you too. Her stories of growing up in three different households are the very opposite of truth-y. They are genuinely funny, in a way that is real. I'd even say important. Oh! I am seriously going to have to use these two words: Uplifting. Healing. (But not in a gay way.)
If your life sucks right now - you should make her your new Aunt Bee and buy it. If you think your life might suck later, just buy it now so you're ready.

So Funny!

Samantha Bee is hysterical! I can't imagine actually reading this book when you can listen to it. I'm sure it is a funny read as well, but you would deffinitely miss something without Bee's impressions, mannerisms, and inflections. Really, really, funny!

Hysterical but so not safe for work

Samantha Bee is the perfect narrator for her own snarky, smart, and funny story. The book chronicles her early life with unconventional parents and sometimes grandparents. She’s naughty, irreverent, explicit, and does not hold back on the self humiliation. I frequently found myself in tears from laughing so hard, but not in the car with the kids. Not for the prudish but I doubt you would be picking up this book if that describes you. This is pre late night show and really doesn’t deal with her celebrity or career very much.

Very Samantha

wow , she is really serious about gift giving lol. I was sad when it was over. Love her even more now.

LOVED!

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Samantha Bee is hilarious and witty! This book had me laughing out loud! Highly recommend

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This book it like a 6hr comedy show, but....It has no punchy end!