Online Author Talk - Jena Friedman

Register for this virtual conversation with comedian and Academy Award nominated Jena Friedman, author of Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera.

Jena Friedman is a comedian, filmmaker, and creator of AMC’s Indefensible and Soft Focus with Jena Friedman on Adult Swim. She has worked on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Show with David Letterman, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, ARTNET, and The Guardian. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and won a Writer’s Guild of America award for her work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York. Find out more at JenaFriedman.com and follow her on Twitter @JenaFriedman. 

Friedman’s debut collection, Not Funny, takes on the third rails of modern life in Jena’s bold and subversive style, with essays that explore cancel culture, sexism, work, celebrity worship, and…dead baby jokes. 

Register for this event and to see a list of upcoming speakers visit https://libraryc.org/cohassetlibrary

This series is sponsored by The Friends of the Cohasset Library.