We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life covers a broad range of topics, being single, lost loves, awkward situations, tough childhoods, parents dying, being disabled, being queer. She can make you feel better about your own situation while recounting her less than ideal situations. She’ll be the first to point out her flaws and then exaggerate them so much that you actually laugh out loud and people look at you funny. She says what we all think but don’t say or don’t want to admit to thinking. Irby balances on tight wire of self-deprecating humor and bullying herself for our entertainment.

This can sum up Irby’s humor, downright depressing if she doesn’t phrase everything just so. It’s so realistic it can be downright depressing if she doesn’t phrase everything just so. I love watching a man humiliate himself I wish it was on every night.” (11) As much as she loves the fantasy of the show, her idea of romance is deeply grounded in reality. She goes on to explain why The Bachelorette is her favorite show, “…you should already know that a show where a woman is surrounded by twenty-five slabs of brisket clamoring to brazenly drink her dirty bathwater and massage the corns on her toes in front of the entire country is 100 percent my kind of party. And I’m too poor to run multiple background checks.” (9) Can’t just ask your casual booty call to commit to spending Friday nights indoors arguing over the valuation of some at-home mom’s jelly and jam business. Also, I need someone to watch Shark Tank with, and I feel like that’s a spousal kind of expectation. “ Why would you want to find your spouse on our TV show? Have you been to the club lately!? Shit’s fucking dire, man.

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby