Audiobook Review: Yearbook by Seth Rogan

Yearbook by Seth Rogen
Narrator: Seth Rogan and cast
Release Date: May 14, 2021
Publisher: Random House Audio
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Seth’s Description:

Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way of saying “the first one.”) 

 I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day.

Yearbook is a collection of memories written by Seth Rogan. The audiobook is narrated by him and a cast of 80 other narrators, including Rogen’s mom and dad, Nick Kroll, Jay Pharoah, Jason Segel, Dan Aykroyd, Ike Barinholtz, Simon Helberg, Tommy Chong, and Billy Idol.

This is the kind of celebrity memoir I live for. Not only does he dish all the dirt, but he does it in a hilarious way. After you listen to the time he met George Lucas, you’ll never view Star Wars in the same way. He compares one studio executive – who he names – to the devil incarnate.

Not only that, he is very candid about his love of drugs, mostly pot and mushrooms. He has some very funny stories about things that happened when he was high. To be clear, he does not have a drug problem, he just appreciates them when he uses them.

There are childhood anecdotes as well, and he makes them interesting. In many celebrity memoirs, the childhood stuff is boring but not his. I didn’t know he started doing stand-up comedy when he was only 14 years old!

I actually listened to this book last year (I’m so behind on reviews!) but I liked it so much that my husband and I listened to it on a recent road trip. He enjoyed it too and it made the time pass quickly. Highly recommended.