Misfit by Gary Gulman

A tour-de-force of comedy and reflection about growing up in the 70's
and 80's-from the beloved stand-up comic and creator of The Great
Depresh
For years, Gary Gulman had been the comedian's comedian, beloved for his
delight in language and his bracing honesty. As Jason Zinoman wrote inthe
New York Times : Gulman's finest jokes don't hit you in the gut so much as
tickle your brain. They have a literary quality, a rhythm, and an ear for
language."
But then in 2019, Gulman's HBO special, The Great Depresh, became a
cultural sensation, earning Gulman wide acclaim and a huge new audience.
He has subsequently appeared as a regular on popular television shows and
sold out Carnegie Hall.
In The Great Depresh, Gulman described a mental health crisis so severe that
at age 46 it landed him in a psychiatric ward and then back in his mother's
house and his childhood bedroom. And that's where Misfit begins.
But this is no ordinary book on growing older and growing up. Gulman has an
astonishing memory and takes the reader through every year of his childhood
education with obsessively detailed stories that are in turn alarming and
riotously funny. As we meet his neighbors, teachers, heroes, and antagonists,
we get a portrait of a young comedian who is often his own worst enemy. It is
also chock-full of 70's and 80's nostalgia that will appeal to those who lived it
and those who are fascinated byit.
This is a portrait of a comedian as an awkward young man, written as only
Gary Gulman could write it.

Over 25 years in comedy,Gary Gulman has established himself as an
eminent performer and peerless writer. His most recent standup special for
HBO, The Great Depresh," is a universally acclaimed, masterful look at
mental illness, equal parts hilarious and inspiring.
Raised in Boston, Gulman has been a scholarship college football player, an
accountant, and a high school teacher. He has made countless television
appearances as both a comedian and an actor. Misfit is his first book.

Flatiron Books
On Sale: Sep 12/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 288 pages
Plus four-color photographic collage endpapers
9781250777065 • $38.99 • CL - With dust jacket
Biography / Personal Memoirs