I’ve learned about the power of holding my own and allowing myself to have a delayed reaction. I’ve learned, by watching Arden navigate heartbreak, that my biggest fear could come true, but that I could still put myself back together. (She didn’t teach me not to date the drummer.) She’s showed me how to turn my damage into superpowers and take the control back from the unproductive things. She’s held my hand and taught me to listen for the difference between my little monster voices and the ones that actually want to help me. She’s taught me how to identify the things you come by honestly. I’ve been told that God doesn’t waste pain, and I have seen firsthand the beauty and comedy Arden was able to find even during the shadows of tragedy.Īrden has taught me that it’s okay to feel like you’re way too much and not enough at the same time. The absurd nature of her personality lets you know why she is the way she is. Arden’s sense of humor courses through her and is present in every way. That day, I got in the driver’s seat and came to care about Arden on our trip to Grief Island in a way I’d never anticipated. Arden and I had been getting closer, and in many ways she had scooped me into her passenger seat, and I’ve watched her follow her path. When I arranged a private twerkout class in a Hasidic rec center, I never could’ve imagined it would be the place where my friend would hear some of the worst news of her life. I’m excited this book exists so that you can get to know her as I have. We’ve been stared at by strangers and disturbed the peace I’ve been blindsided by the iron fist of wisdom in the velvet glove of laughter. In the time it takes to get to and from a shitty taco joint, we have usually started forty different conversations and finished four. ![]() Spending time with Arden really makes you start to see the funny in everything. I’ve spent a lot of time in Arden’s passenger seat. It’s also a sort of therapy because the conversation is self-aware and challenges me to think about things in new ways. I consider hangouts with Arden my Ab Day because the laughter is always sidesplitting. I can’t tell whether Arden has a distinctly funny perspective or she just attracts ridiculous things. I’ve never known such a gorgeous tornado of a soul, with an even larger hurricane swirling in different forms around her life. But it’s too specific, too bananas, and too canonically Arden to be made up. If I didn’t know Arden, I probably wouldn’t believe a lot of what’s in these pages. This book is filled with even more new gems than I could have expected. Arden has told me so many wild stories from her life, each one more hilarious and bizarre than the last, that I figured I must have heard them all by now. When my friend and yours, Arden Myrin, asked me to write the foreword to her book, I cried in her passenger seat. Shout out to Little Compton!! Woot Woot!!! How do you date someone and not ruin it? How do you interact with people if you have a teeny bit of social anxiety? How do you stand up for yourself if you’re a people pleaser? And most of all, how do you start to believe that you are enough?įrom small town Rhode Island to accidentally kicking Courteney Cox in the face on a soundstage in Hollywood, Arden’s hilarious, inspiring, and honest story shows readers how one totally unconventional upbringing might be the very thing one needs to thrive, all while showing up as your most outrageous, authentic self. She moved to Los Angeles, knowing no one, and quickly realized she had no clue how to be a fully-grown human adult on her own. After drinking in as much comedy experience (and Sea Breezes) as she could, Arden got her big break when she was cast on an NBC sitcom. Stop Lights: Zero.Īt nineteen, Arden packed her bags with stars in her eyes and landed at ImprovOlympic in Chicago, where for the first time in her life she felt like she finally made sense. Oh, and she grew up in a small farm town called Little Compton, Rhode Island. ![]() Growing up in Arden’s family, her dad ate nothing but sheet cake, while her mom was busy teaching a Cub Scout troop how to put on a Broadway musical. Arden’s parents did one better - they married on a dare. Her paternal grandparents ran off and got married twenty-four hours after they met. ![]() Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an unconventional upbringing.Īrden Myrin is the product of not one, but two hasty decisions.
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