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This Will Be Funny Later
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jenny Pentland
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame.
Growing up, Jenny Pentland’s life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother’s smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland’s early family life in working-class Denver. But that was only the beginning of the drama. Roseanne Barr’s success as a comedian catapulted the family from the Rockies to star-studded Hollywood—with its toxic culture of money, celebrity, and prying tabloids that was destabilizing for a child in grade school.
By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues. Her parents and new stepfather, struggling to help, responded by sending Jenny and her siblings on a grand tour of the self-help movement of the ’80s—from fat camps to brat camps, wilderness survival programs to drug rehab clinics (even though Jenny didn’t take drugs). Becoming an adult, all Jenny wanted was to get married and have kids, despite Roseanne’s admonishments not to limit herself to being just a wife and mother.
In this scathingly funny and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it’s like to grow up as the daughter of a television star and how she navigated the turmoil, eventually finding her own path. Now happily married and raising five sons on a farm, Pentland has worked tirelessly to create the stable family she never had, while coming to terms at last with her deep-seated anxiety.
This Will Be Funny Later is a darkly funny and frank chronicle of transition, from childhood to adulthood and motherhood—one woman’s journey to define herself and create the life she always wanted.
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- Dana Blue
- 2023-05-05
My fav book
She’s literally got an express way to my funny bone. Witty smart sarcastic funny tragic sad happy comforting. Her narration is perfect and calming. JP is my new spirit animal. ❤️
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- E Mountain
- 2024-01-05
Exactly what you may expect from the progeny of Rosanne Barr
Highly entertaining and captivating listen of this woman’s life path. So much better than fiction and eloquently told. Well done Jenny, I hope Aton sees clearly how it can be done. Congrats on all of your achievements of Life and well wishes for love and unity and harmony in your entire family.
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- Brandie hadfield
- 2022-03-13
Sad it’s over!
I could not stop listening to Jenny Pentland’s book! It was an incredibly entertaining and genuine account of the challenges of growing up during a tumultuous time. To think, while we were all watching “Roseanne” during our formative years, that this was unfolding—blew my mind. Excellently written and read.
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- Nicole Ranville
- 2022-02-02
Great book!
Jenny Pentland's book was engaging, funny and vulnerable, everything you could ask for in an autobiography. A must listen.
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- Jamie
- 2024-07-19
Monotone voice
This felt like a very detached, privileged POV that was very hard to relate to.
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- M
- 2022-09-03
Meh..
I definitely expected more. The story is a decent story but it is not read in an engaging way. There is little emotion and it is very monotone, however every time I want to turn it off I hear something witty and decide to keep listening.
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