Erma Bombeck Interview: She is so funny and very relevant to today. She is missed!
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2017
- Erma Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990's. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers. From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife. By the 1970s, her columns were read twice-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.In 1976 McGraw-Hill published Bombeck's The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, which became a best-seller. In 1978, Bombeck arranged both a million-dollar contract for her fifth book, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? and a 700-thousand-copy advance for her subsequent book, Aunt Erma's Cope Book (1979).She was also making twice-weekly Good Morning America appearances. Bombeck belonged to the American Academy of Humor Columnists, along with other famous personalities. During the 1980s, Bombeck's annual earnings ranged from $500,000 to $1 million a year. She was the grand marshal for the 97th Tournament of Roses Parade held on January 1, 1986. The parade theme was "A Celebration of Laughter.
Erma was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease (an incurable, untreatable genetic disease) when she was 20 years old. She survived breast cancer and mastectomy, and kept secret the fact that she had kidney disease, enduring daily dialysis. She went public with her condition in 1993. On a waiting list for transplant for years, one kidney had to be removed, and the remaining one ceased to function. On April 3, 1996, she received a kidney transplant. Erma Bombeck died on April 22, 1996, aged 69, from complications of the operation. Her remains are interred in the Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio, under a large rock from the Phoenix desert
Oh I miss Erma! I read her books and magazine articles when I was a young mom in the 1990s. Her words rang true then just as much as when she originally began writing. Her books still hit the nail on the head. She made me laugh til I cried and at times she simply made me cry. Especially the day she died. She was like a best friend even though she was old enough to be my mother and I had never met her except through her writing.
She was a Great Woman.
She did a sketch on Good Morning America on Our property. Us kid's built the fire and she cooked an egg in a paper bag. ..🤣
I love Erma Bombek!! I first read " If Life is a Bowl of Cherries: Why am I Always in The Pits?" Great book, great author!! She is very missed..
Yes😢I still keep repeating her famous statement!!!😊
God, Erma is so damn spontaneous and so gifted verbally and literally. It's so cool to hear her talk about Frank, and tell us that Motherhood is the toughest job around. I do miss her so much as a Father of 3. Btw, Ms. Bombeck would have made a great standup comedian. Thank God she didn't need to be.
Delicious! What a fluid being! Almost sixty years Reading and find her right now! I am overwhelmed about❤❤❤The writter and The human she IS, só Full of life and humour
Her books r amazing
Heddy Girly Brown was a fool. She had a husband who told her to have affairs to climb the corporate ladder even when she did not want to. Stupid. Mothers that stayed home were the backbone of this country. So under appreciated by everyone is the state of motherhood.
She's the reason I'm not a mother...Too much work!!!
Being a father is to but wouldn't trade it for nothing
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The most difficult job of our lives.
Fiction writer
What happened to the sound ? can't hear anything !!
That is likely due to faulty hardware. I had no sound troubles while watching this video.
No audio
W,
Motherhood is the toughest job....um...no. a good mother is valuable but...
She's a spitting image of my grandma. But she doesn't sound like her. Or dress like her. But if facial analysis is any kind of science, there's a lot of literati who look like family members of mine. Must be why I'm a writer. Lol. None of us were famous, though; other than my uncle for a short time. He was Mr. Universe once. Haha. My dad kind of looks like Salvador Dali crossed with Bono, of course, a lot of famous people look like Bono, but my Pop Pop looked like a cross between Noam Chomsky and FDR. My mom looks like a famous CZcams personality whose a legit genius. My one other uncle kind of looks like Kid Rock. My one aunt has some Judit Polgar things going on, my cousin looks like Kaitlin Ledecky, and my one Uncle looks like this journalist that David Hoffman interviewed. My Pappy looked like Audie Murphy. And my one cousin has some Natalie Portman vibes going on. I'm face blind, but to me they look like them. I can obviously see the differences when I focus, but I have a lot of good genes in the intelligence department, since a lot of my family looks like these people.
But this is spot on. My Grandma had more sunken in eyes, though. Which is a trait in our family, I can see on my second cousin.
I think this interviewer truly don't know what the first profession is! Unbelievable.
But she's pretty .
Mom
I did not miss her and did not need a reminder.