Comedy writer Ian Karmel has been making fun of his own body since he was a kid. He wrote T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People along with his sister.
Author Interviews"The first place I learned to be funny was on the schoolyard trying to defuse this weird tension around my body, says Ian Karmel. He won an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on James Corden's"Carpool Karaoke" special with Paul McCartney.Comedy writer Ian Karmel spent most of his life making fun of his weight, starting at a very young age.
For Karmel, the jokes and insults didn't stop with adolescence. He says the humiliation he experienced as a kid navigating gym classes, and the relentless barrage of fat jokes from friends and strangers, fueled his comedy. "Once we lost a bunch of weight ... we realized we'd never had these conversations about it with each other," Karmel says."If this book affects even the way one person thinks about fat people, even if that fat person happens to be themselves, that would be this book succeeding in every way that I would hope for."I've been called fat, overweight or obese, husky, big guy, chunky, any number of words, all of those words just loaded up with venom.
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