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A hilarious, poignant memoir from comedian Todd Goblet about his decision at time forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man - and the reactions and support from his humor pals, from Louis CK to Sarah Silverman. Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was a fairly easy life. Well, easy so long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. As soon as you added gay into the combination, life became more difficult. So Todd Goblet decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. It might have been a lot easier had he chosen a profession apart from stand-up humor. By time eighteen, Todd was starting for big musical works like George Jones and Patti LaBelle. His profession taken him through the LA humor heyday in the 1980s, its decrease in the 1990s, and its own rebirth via the choice comedy field and the explosion in podcasting. But the harder he did the trick at his build, the more difficult it became to control his "situation." There have been the years of abstinence and half-hearted efforts to "cure" himself. The fake girlfriends so that he could inform relationship jokes onstage. The staged intimate encounters to burnish his reputation offstage. It needed a clean with fatality to cause him to rethink just how he was living his life; a rash of suicides among gay teens to persuade him that it was finally time out to the entire world. Now, Todd has written an wide open, honest, and hilarious memoir in order to help everyone - young and old, gay and direct - breathe a bit more easily. Peppered with anecdotes from his life among comedy's greatest headliners and stories of the once in a while insane measures Todd experienced to keep a magic formula that - let's face it - he probably didn't have to keep for as long as he do, The Todd Goblet Situation is a front-row couch to the last thirty plus many years of comedy history and a deeply personal account about one man's search for acceptance.
