LAUGHING WITH SADNESS –
July 1, 2026 – In her book, Fully Baked, comedian and former Saturday Night Live writer Rosebud Baker, to quote her favorite programming, Bravo, “mentions it all.”
She writes about the weight of her difficult upbringing as the granddaughter of James A. Baker III, the former Secretary of the Treasury of President Ronald Reagan and the Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. She details the grief following the death of her sister, who drowned at age 7 in a freak pool accident, and the miscarriage she would have decades later.
With astonishing candor, she recounts her alcoholism and the seemingly endless rock bottoms she’d crash through before becoming sober.
If you can believe it, after all that, Fully Baked is one of the funniest books I’ve read this year.
