I got a chance to speak with writer/performer Lauren Weedman about her new book A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: (Tales from a Life of Cringe)

Weedman has an avid following for her gutsy plays and one-woman performances, but her bedrock to fame is her brief stint on The Daily Show. And if her confessions of painful gaffes with host Jon Stewart contain even a molecule of truth, it's a wonder she lasted as long as she did. Weedman is of the hyperactively self-loathing school of comedy, in which women obsess about their bodies and offer audacious details. Need we say more than coffee enema? Weird bad sex? But Weedman isn't going for the merely gauche in her first collection of humorous autobiographical essays. For one thing, she is too fine a writer; for another she has smart things to say about our failures to communicate at home and in the world. In tales about the breakdown of her marriage, her struggle to understand what it means to be adopted, her relationship with a widower and his teenage son, her follies abroad, and a hilarious misadventure in a thrift-store dress at the Emmies, Weedman uses raunchiness as a covert route to the heart. - Booklist

For more on Lauren Weedman, including her upcoming tour dates and a link to her hilarious online video spots for Oxygen, check out her web site.

You can also check out these two out-takes from the interview:

Lauren Weedman's Tattoo

Lauren Weedman Gets Some Cookies