Like I got this weird mom sense of humor, and I put it on my daughter’s bed. I just hated everything about it.Īnd then when I adopted my daughter, it suddenly was hysterical to me. Julia Sweeney: Well, it is a good introduction to the characters in the story, and it is kind of good thematically because it’s all about this pillow my mother gave me with that quip on it, and I really hate it, and I hate puns that are rhyming especially. Rico Gagliano: You kept the first chapter of your book just because it had a cool title? I had that opening chapter which I wrote, and then the publishers really wanted that name, and I did too at first, because people did laugh, but then I wrote a lot of extra chapters in the book, and that chapter really would have been one I cut, except that it had that title in it. Julia Sweeney: I actually didn’t want them to name it that. The title of this book, it’s a little hokey.īrendan Francis Newnam: “If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother.” All the Joes.īrendan Francis Newnam: Joe #9, Joe #10, and then you met Michael.īrendan Francis Newnam: But before we get there, let’s be honest. Julia Sweeney: I have to go lay in the fetal position now for a minute, but then I’ll be back to the interview.īrendan Francis Newnam: You talk about going through, you call all your former relationships Joe. Julia Sweeney: I’m just laughing at the searching for and finding a husband.īrendan Francis Newnam: I mean, was an alternative title search party? Julia tells us about Sport Utility Strollers and other hazards of parenting…then addresses foodsnobs from the heavens and drinks with the boss. This week she releases If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother – a memoir about deciding to adopt as a single woman, searching for (and finding) a husband, and raising her adopted daughter, Mulan. Since then she’s written and performed in several critically-acclaimed one-woman shows. As a “Saturday Night Live” cast member in the early nineties, Julia Sweeney created the infamous androgynous character Pat, among many others.
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