Before Liz Lemon, before “Weekend Update,” before “Sarah Palin,” Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen both these dreams come true.
At last, Tina Fey’s story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon — from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.
Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we’ve all suspected: you’re no one until someone calls you bossy.
I love Tina Fey. From SNL to 30 Rock to Sarah Palin impersonations to Megamind, she has continued to impress me, not only as a comedian, but as a writer and thoughtful entertainer as well.
Bossypants is an honest and hilarious memoir by one of New York’s 50 Most Powerful Women (NY Post). This is not a Hollywood tell-all, but an engaging and interesting behind-the-scenes look at an “achievement-oriented, drug-free, adult virgin” (3). Fey admits, these are “lurid tales of anxiety and cowardice” (4). And many of them are gut wrenching!
Though this book is honest, it often reads like one joke after another. The reader may still feel distanced from the real Tina Fey after reading Bossypants, but I think the opposite is true. The constant humor, the one-liners, the self-deprecation is who she really is, which makes her writing and comedy work.
Fey’s chapter entitled “A Childhood Dream, Realized,” in which she recounts her first meeting with Lorne Michaels and the beginnings of her career at SNL, is worth the price of the book.
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This is a fun and funny book. Enjoy.
I enjoy a good memoir. It seems there’s always something good to learn from other people’s life experiences. And while I’m not a huge Tina Fey fan, I enjoyed her as Sarah Palin on SNL and occasionally watch 30 Rock. So after reading a review of the book, and being without anything to read at the moment, I took a chance and bought Bossypants, and I’m glad I did.
It seemed a little uneven starting out, but quickly transitioned into some very interesting pieces about her early jobs, her work with Second City, and then her transition into writing for SNL and her eventual creation of 30 Rock. Interspersed are stories about growing up and dating, her eventual marriage, and her struggles to balance work and family life, as well as some candid advice for other women on how to make it in a male-dominated industry.
Perhaps what I liked most about the book is that even though there is a lot of self-deprecating (and distancing) humor, my sense in the end was that Fey gave us an honest look at who she is: imperfect, stumbling, but always rising again, persevering, and continuing to do what she loves. I would say the book is well worth reading for any fan of Tina Fey, 30 Rock, or SNL, as well as for any woman who struggles to balance the roles of worker, spouse and mom. It was a good read!
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