The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

And now, she’s ready to inspire others through the power of laughter. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.īy turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is-humble, grateful, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. Tiffany can’t avoid being funny-it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set.

None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. In captioning the original Instagram video, the comic wrote: “I know where every mole is but I don’t know my scalp.Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!įrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. “It’s really important to know who you are, to know every nook and cranny of your body, and that’s the one part of my body I didn’t know,” she said. The Girl’s Trip star’s decision to cut off all of her hair was driven by self-exploration.

“And if I do have to be on anything, they always put me in wigs anyways.” Now, nearly two years later, Haddish tells Byrdiethat being bald was “the most alive I ever felt.” “Everything made me think, ‘Why not now?’” she told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. Pandemic lockdowns were in full swing, there were no red carpet events in the foreseeable future, and she had been wanting to take the plunge for some time. In July 2020, Tiffany Haddish shaved her head on Instagram Live. She also released the album Black Mitzvah in 2019, for which she won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, making her the second African-American woman to win this prize after Whoopi Goldberg in 1986. “I know where every mole is but I don’t know my scalp,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for hosting a Saturday Night Live episode (2017) and published a memoir, The Last Black Unicorn (2017). The actress and comedian made the big chop to better understand her body. She said it was “the most alive I ever felt.” Tiffany Haddish recently reflected on her decision to shave her head in 2020.

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The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish