Jenifer Lewis’s The Mother of Black Hollywood (with Madison Shepard)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea and Madison Shepard (Single Drunk Female, Wow Rude Podcas‪t‬) dive into Jenifer Lewis's The Mother of Black Hollywood, a memoir filled with hilarity, mental health awareness, and oh-so '70s seduction techniques.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Celebrity Book Club.
0:06.8	This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates the memoirs of badass female celebrities
0:11.2	who have been torn down by tabloids, dissected by social media, and faced heartaches and
0:15.2	triumphs and come out of it all even stronger.
0:17.7	I'm your host Chelsea Devantes, I am a writer, comedian, and filmmaker, and this week
0:22.0	we are book clubbing Jennifer Lewis' memoir written in 2017 titled The Mother of Black
0:27.4	Colleywood.
0:28.4	And some of the title refers to just how many moms she has played.
0:32.7	She was Tina Turner's mom in the movie What's Love Got To Do With It, Angela Bassett was
0:37.2	Tina Turner, and Jennifer Lewis was Tina Turner's mom, even though she was only a year and
0:42.6	a half older than Angela.
0:44.9	She is Anthony Anderson's mom in Blackish on ABC, and she's the overbearing mom in
0:50.8	act like a lady, think like a man.
0:52.7	I don't know if you guys saw that movie, but I saw the movie because I read the book and
0:56.9	I was so mad at the book that I went to the movie to probably hate on it and I ended up
1:03.2	loving it.
1:05.0	I loved that movie, I don't know if it holds up, I don't know if it does, but I remember
1:10.2	having a good time.
1:12.2	So I had heard amazing things about this book, and it was so much fun to read, and I do
1:17.1	want to say that this is going to be a swearing, heavy episode, even more than normal, because
1:24.0	here are some of the chapter titles from this book.
1:28.0	Shoulders Back, Titties First, just great posture advice, you know.
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