Gabourey Sidibe's This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare (with Aeysha Carr)
Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast
Chelsea Devantez
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
This week, Chelsea and Aeysha Carr (Woke, Rel, Brooklyn 99) discuss the many gems in Gabourey Sidibe's hilarious and touching memoir — including the power of declaring yourself a winner. Plus, a surprise visit from Gabourey herself!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Celebrity Book Club. This week we're book clubing. This is just my face. Try not to stare. |
| 0:11.0 | By Gaboréidibay. |
| 0:12.9 | Because at some point in history, if someone that looked like me |
| 0:16.2 | was on TV, we were a maid or a slave. |
| 0:19.5 | That has evolved, and because I have evolved, it is my duty to make sure that other |
| 0:25.4 | marginalized people get to evolve as well. Now that I understand that and now that I'm |
| 0:29.8 | in my agency I don't see any reason to turn back and I don't fucking have to. |
| 0:35.0 | So we're gonna get into the book everything from her insane childhood to her |
| 0:40.6 | starring role and precious it's such a good book you really fall in love with her and which is so |
| 0:46.3 | cool because we actually got to interview her. So Gaborate is on this episode at the very end you will hear some of our interview with |
| 0:54.7 | Gabri and listen I hate to give spoiler but both of us did cry so look forward to at the end of the episode. She's really, really cool. And it all comes |
| 1:07.2 | through in her book. So let's dive in to this episode and please welcome my guest Total Dream Woman, |
| 1:13.7 | Aisha Carr. |
| 1:14.9 | Hi, Aisha. |
| 1:16.3 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh my God, it is a dream to have you here. |
| 1:21.0 | So Aisha is a showrunner, a TV writer, producer, screenwriter. Her |
| 1:25.9 | credits would take up this entire podcast. She has been a writer and producer on Woke, |
| 1:32.0 | Rell, Brooklyn 99, the Carmichael show, |
| 1:34.8 | Everybody hates Chris. |
| 1:36.1 | So many more shows, I'm not even mentioning. |
| 1:38.6 | She's also written some incredible movies, |
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