Sherri Shepherd
Emmy® award-winning talk show host, comedienne/actress
Whether on stage or screen, Emmy® award-winning talk show host, comedienne/actress Sherri Shepherd never fails to delight audiences with her magnetic personality and hilarious sense of humor, which is showcased in her position as co-host of ABC’s The View.

Sherri will star and executive produce her new Lifetime series, SHERRI. The show is loosely based on her life and stand-up comedy, and premiered on October 5, 2009. Also in October, Sherri’s humorous autobiography, “Permission Slips: Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Herself a Break,” was launched by Grand Central Publishing.

She continues to reprise her hysterical role as Angie Jordan, wife to Tracey Morgan’s character on the Emmy® award-winning series 30 Rock. Sherri will be seen in the upcoming feature film, Precious, alongside Mo’Nique, Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey, and directed by Lee Daniels (Monsters Ball). Precious is based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire and recently won the Grand Jury U.S. Drama and Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film premieres November 6, 2009. Sherri most recently co-starred in Dreamworks’ animated feature Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, where she voiced the character of Ben Stiller’s mother.

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Covering topics such as "It's Jesus or Jail,""Marriage, the Hard Way,""Children: The Gift You Can't Give Back," and "All the Things I Don't Know...And All the Things I Definitely Do," stand-up comedienne, actress, and ABC's The View co-host Sherri Shepherd comically chronicles her struggles to keep up with the many roles-professional, wife, mother, daughter, and friend-that women must play in today's world. Sherri urges women to pursue their most important dreams and to never give up, but also let's readers know that it's okay to give themselves "permission slips" when things don't always work out the way they want them to. As her many fans know, Sherri is never hesitant to speak from the heart, and her bubbly personality shines through in this delightful autobiography.
EXCERPT: 'Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break'
I wish someone would have sat me down when I was a little girl
and told me, “Sherri, you can’t do anything right.”
Hold on—I can explain.
We women are trapped by our circumstances in a way that
men are not. We are bound to our families. Our connections to
our loved ones are intricate and profound. We stand in the center
of a deep pond, surrounded by our children, husbands, boyfriends,
parents, siblings, co-workers, and friends. Every move we make
has a ripple effect on the people in our pond. If we make a small
move, we create a small wave. Big move, big wave. The bottom
line is, even if you’re doing the right thing, you’re making a wave.
And that means somebody in your pond is going to get wet.
How many times have you left the house at 8 am, only to be
haunted by competing cries as you shut the door?
“Mommy, I don’t want you to go to work!”
“Baby, you gonna put in a few more hours this week so we can pay the
cable bill?”

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