I just learned that Jonathan Van Ness from “Queer Eye” has a book coming out this month: “Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love.” That makes three of the “Queer Eye” guys to post up in the celebrity memoir section, along with Karamo and Tan. (Antoni’s got a cookbook, but that doesn’t count. We need the hot goss!)
JVN is such a cartoon character, and I love it. When I first watched “Queer Eye,” I thought that maybe it was all an act, and that there was no way he could be that performative and and joyful and outré all the time. But he IS. And I love it.
In honor of the queen’s entrance to authorhood, here’s a little quiz about other stars who put their lives on paper.
- The 2011 book “Bossypants” is a comedic memoir chronicling the early Second City improv troupe days of this woman, who would go on to become the first female head writer for “Saturday Night Live.”
- What actress and prolific writer of novels, screenplays and memoirs published three autobiographical humor books: “Wishful Drinking,” “Shockaholic” and “The Princess Diarist”?
- Which member of “The Golden Girls” had a sense of humor about the ups and downs of her personal life, naming her autobiography “My First Five Husbands…And the Ones Who Got Away” while married to her sixth husband?
- The 2009 memoir of this Rolling Stones member is appropriately titled “Life,” given his status as the punchline to jokes about how indestructible his health seems to be despite years of hard living.
- “Born a Crime” tells the story what “Daily Show” host’s childhood growing up biracial in South Africa?
Answers coming up after a video of Jonathan giving beauty tips while playing with kittens. God bless Buzzfeed for bringing this content into our lives.
Answers
- Tina Fey
- Carrie Fisher
- Rue McClanahan
- Keith Richards
- Trevor Noah
Oh, hey! I also have a book: “Could There BE Any More Trivia? A ‘Friends’ Quiz Book” available on Amazon.