When I was your age : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown Cover Image

When I was your age : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown / Kenan Thompson with Dibs Baer

Thompson, Kenan, (author.). Baer, Dibs, (author.).

Summary:

"When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson."-- Provided by publisher.

Thompson provides an ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and learning from the school of hard knocks. He is the longest-ever-service cast member of Saturday Night Live, as well as the survivor of early 2000s television programs and movies. But Thompson is also a dad to two girls, offering advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. From his biggest mistakes to his most triumphant victories, there's something here for everybody!-- Adapted from jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063348066
ISBN: 0063348063
Physical Description: viii, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: [New York, NY] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- All that & a bag of chips -- Back in the day -- Tuesday is a church day, too! -- Being a dad sucked the cool right out of me -- How watching "programs" can become a career -- Your daddy was a child star (and he made it out alive) -- Behind the scenes: Black is still beautiful -- The huggable cutie -- I'm glad I went for broke. For real -- There's a thin line between perseverance and delusion -- I want you to be proud of me, too -- I'm back to singling and mingling -- Always meet your heroes -- Just like cookies need milk, you need a partner in crime -- Everything I need to know about life, I learn from my girls -- For those who made me laugh, I salute you -- Epilogue: A change is gonna come. Probably.