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Jessi Klein

Biography

Jessi Klein

Jessi Klein is the author of YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT and I'LL SHOW MYSELF OUT, and the Emmy and Peabody award-winning head writer and an executive producer of Comedy Central's critically acclaimed series "Inside Amy Schumer." She is an actor and consulting producer on the hit Netflix show "Big Mouth," and has also written for Netflix’s "Dead to Me" and Amazon's "Transparent," as well as "Saturday Night Live." Klein has been featured on the popular storytelling series "The Moth," and has been a regular panelist on NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" Her work has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and she has her own half-hour Comedy Central stand-up special. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Jessi Klein

Books by Jessi Klein

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
by Jessi Klein - Essays, Humor, Nonfiction

In New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein’s second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies and possibilities of midlife. In interconnected essays like “Listening to Beyoncé in the Parking Lot of Party City,” “Your Husband Will Remarry Five Minutes After You Die,” “Eulogy for My Feet” and “An Open Love Letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent,” Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments and bittersweetness.

You'll Grow Out of It
by Jessi Klein - Essays, Humor, Nonfiction

In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, comedian Jessi Klein offers a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss."