Jenny Jones: My Story Book

Jenny examines her traumatic childhood in Canada, when, as an eleven-year-old runaway, she lived on her own for more than a month, surviving by waiting tables and shoplifting, only returning home when she was arrested for the first of four times in her life. Flunking nearly all her classes, she quit high school and took to the road playing drums with a succession of rock bands in the '60s, living in sleazy motels, and playing smoke-filled bars in Canada's lumber camps. Using her skills as a drummer, she worked her way first to Los Angeles, then to Las Vegas, where she formed the first of her many bands and sang backup for Wayne Newton. Two failed marriages later, with her musical career in a rut, Jenny reinvented herself as a stand-up comic, once again hitting the road playing clubs across America and Canada. Four years after Star Search, she'd lost it all - the money, the fame, the opportunities, the self-confidence. As a last-ditch effort to save herself from financial ruin and career oblivion, she developed Girls' Night Out, an irreverent for-women-only comedy show that's been described as part stand-up comedy, part talk show, and part group therapy. It became one of the most talked-about comedy shows in the country, and paved the way to Jenny Jones, one of the most popular talk shows in the country. With personal and professional insights, and humorous and painful anecdotes, Jenny discusses her self-doubts, a heartbreaking relationship with her alcoholic mother, her breast implant disaster, and the often antagonistic media. And, for the first time, she speaks publicly about the tragic murder of one of her talk-show guests in March of 1995.

An examination of the life of the drummer turned comedienne turned talk show host.