Joyful Recollections

Sep 25, 2024 | chevaliersbooks.com | Paul Scheer |Joyful Recollections |Maria Bamford

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self. Paul Scheer has entertained countless fans and podcast listeners with stories about the odd, wild, and absurd details of his life. Yet these tales have pointed to deeper, more difficult truths that the actor and comedian has kept to himself.

Jun 14, 2024 | airmail.news | Caira Conner |Paul Scheer |Joyful Recollections

There’s a tendency to think child abuse happens only behind closed doors, hidden by deception or manipulation. Otherwise, surely, someone would put a stop to it. But what comedian Paul Scheer endured wasn’t secret. It was out in the open. When he was three, his parents divorced. Then along came Hunter, his mother’s violent second husband. Hunter threatened Scheer’s life so many times––with his fists, with a pitchfork––that Scheer doesn’t remember when the abuse began.