Bossypants
Ratings334
Average rating3.8
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Ratings334
Average rating3.8
Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL (Sunday Telegraph). 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 always suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy. (Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!)
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I enjoyed the insights into the television industry, getting to see them through Tina Fey's lens. But in general, I didn't find the book as funny as I'd hoped. It was fine; I just wasn't enamored.
Very good but only 3 stars because it doesn't feel like much will stay with me. But I would give five stars to the passage on lessons from improv that will change your life.
I did not read the book; rather, I listened to it on a Playaway from the library. I'm confident that I made the right choice because the author narrates the book, giving the stories real life. I would not have been able to hear the stories in her voice. Overall, it's funny and entertaining - I loved her unsolicited advice and opinions, no nonsense self-deprecation, and stories about family and love and learning. I did not love the detailed stuff about particular shows that feel too...too, um, close to the shows. Since I've never seen 30 Rock, I couldn't understand any of the discussion about the writers and actors and their MVP jokes. It felt like a list...a list that your friend is just rattling off about work or their kids that you just don't care.
Pick up the audio book if you want to laugh a little and are either: a) madly in love with all the shows that Tina Fey has been involved with or b) able to happily ignore the parts that will be boring to you.
Nice quick listen - nothing earth-shattering, but I laughed quite a bit.
