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No Job for a Man: A Memoir

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By (author): John Ross Bowie

A darkly witty, deeply affecting, and finely crafted memoir by the Big Bang Theory and Speechless star and comedian, John Ross Bowie.  

From his earliest memories of watching Rhoda with his parents in their tiny Hells Kitchen apartment, John knew that he wanted to be an actor. The strange, alternate world of televisionwhere people always cracked the perfect joke, lived in glamorous Upper East Side buildings, and made up immediately after fightingseemed far better than his own home life, with a mother and father on the brink of divorce and a neighborhood full of crumbling pre-war architecture and not-so-occasional muggings. And yet that other world also seems unattainable. Besides crippling stage fright (which would take him years to overomce) John''s father, ever aloof and cynical, has instilled within him the notion that acting is no job for a man.

His father would impart that while theater, film, and television should be consumed and even debated, to create was no way to make a living or support a family. Putting aside his acting dreams, John stumbles through his twenties. He tries his hand at teaching and other traditional occupations, but nothing feels nearly as fulfilling as playing with his fleetingly on-the-map punk band, Egghead.

When he and his bandmates break up, John lands a joyless job copywriting for a consulting agency and slips into a dark depression. He loses weight, begins drinking heavily, and his relationships flounder.

 But everything changes when John discovers improv (and anti-depressants). As a part of New Yorks now-famous Upright Citizens Brigade, John not only explores his passion for acting and comedyand begins to envision himself doing so professionallyhe also meets his future wife and fellow actor, Jamie Denbo.

No Job for a Man follows the couple as they relocate to Los Angeles and try to make it in the arts, meeting success and failure, wins and losses, despair and hope along the way. Though his father chronically refuses to acknowledge pride in his adult sons accomplishments, John comes to realize what being a man truly means. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 406g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781639362462

About John Ross Bowie

John Ross Bowie is perhaps best known for playing recurring villain and fan favorite Barry Kripke on the international hit television show The Big Bang Theory.  He also recently co-starred as Minnie Drivers husband Jimmy DiMeo on ABCs Speechless. John has been appeared on the television shows Veep Fresh off the Boat Curb Your Enthusiasm Brooklyn 99 CSI and Glee among many others and in movies such as Road Trip The Heat Hes Just Not That Into You The Santa Clause 3 Jumanji: The Next Level and the cult hit What The Bleep Do We Know? Prior to his acting career John was a contributing writer for the New York Press and has since written and developed television scripts at Fox CBS and Amazon. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jamie Denbo and their two children and he thinks an author bio on a memoir is a real hat-on-a-hat situation.

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