Jewish Comedian Alison Leiby's New Memoir Celebrates Being 'Too Much'

Comedian Alison Leiby was a bad bridesmaid. Leiby, a woman who vividly plumbed her personal life for years doing stand-up, a woman who wrote and performed a hit off-Broadway solo show about her abortion, a woman who cops to more cocktails and retail carnage than a Real Housewife, an unmarried woman in her forties who "hates kids" (her exact words, relayed a bit facetiously – but also a bit not) has given the world plenty of fodder for criticism. But one thing that frightened her was writing about her failure as a bridesmaid.