Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

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Overview

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.

Arden Myrin is the product of not one, but two hasty decisions. Her paternal grandparents ran off and got married twenty-four hours after they met. Arden's parents did one better — they married on a dare. 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. Oh, and she grew up in a small farm town called Little Compton, Rhode Island. Human population: 3,518. Cow population: 278. General Store: One. Stop Lights: Zero.

At 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. 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. 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.

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?

From 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. Shout out to Little Compton!! Woot Woot!!!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762474707
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 09/07/2021
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 1,118,831
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Arden Myrin is an actress, writer, nationally headlining standup comedian, and the host of the popular iHeartRadio Bachelor podcast Will You Accept This Rose? She can currently be seen on the smash hit Insatiable as Regina Sinclair (named one of the top 10 most binged shows on Netflix) and has appeared on Chelsea Lately, Mad TV, Shameless, Inside Amy Schumer, Orange Is the New Black, The Howard Stern Show, Grey's Anatomy, Key & Peele, and RuPaul's Drag Race, among others. Arden is from Little Compton, Rhode Island, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband Dan and their kitties.

Table of Contents

Foreword Debby Ryan xi

Introduction xv

Shake Your Moneymaker 1

The Cake Diet 10

XO,JJ 19

Straight Outta Little Compton 31

The Awkward Years: Zero to Nineteen 48

Crotch Chicken 60

Medical and Dental: The Myrin HMO! 70

Wine-NO! 81

Dollar, Dollar Store! 94

Bloom Bright, You Late Bloomer 104

Don't Fuck the Drummer! 119

Don't Date the Drummer! 126

The Unofficial Grand Chancellor of Personal Safety 135

Please, Gall Me Mrs. Myrin 148

Lime Miss Little Compton 158

Delayed Reactions 180

Two Broads Abroad 196

Grief Island 207

So, You Accidentally Kicked America's Sweetheart in the Face? 216

Pigcasso 224

Epilogue 243

Acknowledgments 245

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