Funneling DeGeneres directly into a listener’s head
Regardless of a viewer’s tastes or stance on wacky dancing, TV star Ellen DeGeneres is bound to win them over: She’s a charming, funny and magnetic personality. If DeGeneres ran for president, she’d probably win.
But her medium is a visual one, and that particular kind of charisma doesn’t necessarily translate into a great reading or listening experience. And indeed, some of DeGeneres’s appeal derives from her elastic smile, duck-feather hair and loopy physicality, but all of it? Hardly. Seriously…I’m Kidding demonstrates, in short chapters covering every topic under the sun, that DeGeneres’s appeal transfers easily to book form. It helps, of course, that the author pulls double-duty as the book’s narrator, which has the practical effect of funneling DeGeneres directly into a listener’s head (yay!) Topics covered range from meditation to get-rich-quick schemes to saunas (“My eyelashes are sweating”), and everything in between. Which, it turns out, is quite a lot.