Don't Get Me Started

by Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton’s first book of irreverent humorLet’s get one thing straight. I’m not. I’m out and proud. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm. It wasn’t until I had lived and slept with a woman for a year that it occurred to me to ask, “Do you think we’re lesbians?”

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, LGBT, Queer, Comedy, Lesbian, Essays

210 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 12, 1998

About the author

Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.

Reviews

[Jaena4 Beadling · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love, love, love Kate Clinton!

[Damian Serbu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kate Clinton is HILARIOUS. My favorite comedian of all time. A must read.

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Kate. I hadn't read this one before and found it at a used book store. lots of laughs

[KA · Rating 4 out of 5]

She has kind of a confusing writing style at times, but overall this collection is funny and at times poignant.

[Ann Colangelo]

Dnf I tried time and time again to read I just can’t get into the spontaneity of it. She’s witty and entertaining but it’s not too much my style.

[ND]

fun, if now slightly out of date...

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kate Clinton is a very funny, thought-provoking, lesbian stand-up comic. She made me laugh out loud many times. The book was published in 1998 and was Clinton's first book. It is a bit dated. Young people might not get all the references, but I'm not young (!) and I loved it.

[Pam Rodenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember reading some of this while sitting at the gate in an airport. I had to put it down because I was laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my face.