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The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

April 19, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

What to do when you have a best selling book? Write a sequel, of course, and this time invite the whole family to join in! Amber and Lacey continue their two woman charm offensive on America, in a delightful book that will almost certainly be read by well-intentioned progressives to reassure themselves that they aren’t like racist racist. Just the normal amount of racism that’s fed to all of us through our participation in white supremacy via living in America as a product of the capitalist hamster […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Featured Tagged With: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Lacey Lamar

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Featured · Tags: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Lacey Lamar ·
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A funny book about racism — get the audio if you can!

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

October 25, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

A good time, despite the subject matter. Amber and Lacey make hearing stories about racism simultaneously entertaining and infuriating. Laughing while angry! The best example of what this book does is probably the story that they open it with, for good reason. It involves Lacey being at a store and paying with a check (back when people did that). The cashier was a white teenager. Lacey had checks with famous and historically notable Black people on them. When she pulled out her checkbook the check […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, comedy, crazy stories about racism, Lacey Lamar, narfna, narrated by author, non fiction, Racism

narfna's CBR13 Review No:144 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, comedy, crazy stories about racism, Lacey Lamar, narfna, narrated by author, non fiction, Racism ·
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Well I certainly couldn’t…

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacy by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

June 27, 2021 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

  It’s not an easy thing to make you laugh and fill you with incoherent rage but this book manages to do just that. Written by late night host Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar, You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacy is a series of stories of the everyday racism dealt with by Lacey, who lives and works in Omaha, as told to her sister Amber who now lives in New York. Obviously this is not to say that there is no racism […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #AmberRuffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, CBR13

Bea Pants's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #AmberRuffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, CBR13 ·
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Can racism be funny?

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

June 11, 2021 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

No. It can’t. But Amber Ruffin gets dangerously close… You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamarr 5 Stars I adore Amber Ruffin. I want to be her friend. She is hilarious; her skits on The Late Show with Seth Myers are perfection and her episodes of Drunk History are pure serotonin. She could have published her grocery list and I would have rushed to read it but instead she published this hilarious memoir with her sister who […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Lacey Lamar, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Lacey Lamar, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism ·
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I Would Pay Money For a Book About the Family Ruffin

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

January 18, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

You know the #1 thing I learnt from this book, something which has confused me greatly for very long? “Heaux” is a fancy(?) way of saying hoe/ho! I always read it and thought “beaux” which, as you can imagine, gives a whole different meaning to many situations. Thanks, Amber! JK that’s not what this book is about at all. This book is about Racism, with a capital R, but through the medium of comedy, specifically the comedy of Amber Ruffin, human delight we do not […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, but with comedy, Lacey Lamar, Racism

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, but with comedy, Lacey Lamar, Racism ·
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