Welcome to Celebrity Book Club. This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates the memoirs

of badass female celebrities who have been torn down by tabloids dissected by social

media and faced heartaches and triumphs and come out of it all even stronger. I'm your

host Chelsea Devantes, I am a writer, comedian and filmmaker, and this week we're book clubbing

Julie Andrews' first memoir titled Home. She has two memoirs, this is the first one

she wrote, and this book is about growing up during World War II, performing in the

theater, and a cameo from Queen Elizabeth.

That was Julie Andrews singing favorite things, a song I listened to on repeat and attempted

to sing for our fourth grade talent show, but didn't make the cut. It's a emblazoned

in my memory, I sing it just constantly. It is also quintessential Julie Andrews, which

is loveliness and joy throughout all the roles she played and brought to everyone. We

are diving into everything Julie Andrews today with a very special guest. She is a director

and author, and she started a semester long program called Comedy Studies where college

students could come to Chicago and study Comedy 24-7 and get college credit. It later went

on to become a college major. You can major in comedy now because of this woman. When

the program was brand new, I was a student in the third semester they ever tried. Our

guest was my teacher. She became my mentor. She has had such a massive role in my life.

I call her my comedy mom, so please welcome Anne Lebrough.

Hi. I'm so good to see your face. I was actually going to tell you that I bumped this

book up in our schedule because I just really wanted to talk to you about this book in

particular and dive into everything. I'm so happy to see you.

I'm so excited to be here. I'm so proud of you. I'm your comedy mom. You are my comedy

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