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100 1 $aEpps, Mike,$eauthor.
245 10$aUnsuccessful thug :$bone comedian's journey from Naptown to Tinseltown /$cMike Epps.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$c[2018].
300 $a269 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates :$bcolor ill. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aArchangel Michael -- The baddest kid in school -- The house at Carrollton and dirty-third -- Our forty acres and a mule -- To grandmother's house we go -- The TV show on central -- Crime doesn't pay, unless it's paying you -- Jail, prison, and work release -- A comedy club and a sewer in Atlanta -- Biting into the Big Apple, with a broken tooth -- Acting lessons on Madison Avenue -- An audition and a funeral -- Forever Day-Day Jones -- "Remember the time" -- A moment for the women in my life -- Hollywood is Stephen Decatur high school -- Being Richard Pryor -- Epilogue: from Hollywood to Naptown.
520 $aThe stand-up comedian and actor best known for his appearances in the Friday and Hangover films traces his career and celebrity relationships as well as the early brushes with the law and witness to Hollywood racism that shaped his work in comedy.
520 $a"Before starring in Def Comedy Jam and Showtime at the Apollo--before the sold-out comedy shows, Uncle Buck, and becoming his hero Richard Pryor in a biopic--there was Indianapolis. And not the good part. Mike Epps is one of America's favorite and funniest people, but the path to fame was paved with opportunities to mess it up. And mess it up he did. Growing up in "Naptown"--what people who live there really call rough-around-the-edges Indianapolis--Epps found himselfforced to hustle from an early age. Despite his mother's best efforts, and the love of his well-behaved brother, "Chaney," and his beloved sister, Julie, Epps was drawn to a life of crime, but as he quickly discovered, stealing and dealingdidn't really fit his sweet sensibilities. Not to mention he wasn't very good at it--take, for example, the day he had to call the cops on himself when a dog wouldn't let him leave a house he was burgling. After several arrests and more thana few months in jail, Epps finally realized that he was an unsuccessful thug, and instead turned to the next most obvious career path: stand-up comedy. Heading first to New York, then all over the country, and finally to Hollywood, Mike Epps carved out a unique place in American comedy, combining hysterical tales of his family and friends with a mordant take on life in the Naptowns of America. Comedy saved Mike Epps, and here he reveals exactly how he finally grew up and gotout, barely. And when describing how he survived when so many of his friends didn't, Epps makes clear what he's thankful for and sorry about. Unsuccessful Thug is about growing up black in America, facing down racism in Hollywood, and ultimately how it feels to fail at thugdom, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and end up selling out arenas and starring in movies across the country."--Dust jacket.
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