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Easily the funniest book I have ever read. Along with one of the most inspiring. Tina Fey has always been one of my favorite actresses, writers, and producers. Her autobiography is an insight into this incredible comedian's life and background as well as her extraodinarily humble nature. To sum it up, best autobiography EVER.
I used to like Tina Fey. I purposely tuned in to Saturday Night Live because I enjoyed her saucy yet intellectual, amusing and often biting skits. With co-anchor Jimmy Fallon, Ms. Fey often delivered non-sensical news with deadpan hilarity. I had considered her the thinking woman's comic. Yes, I used to like Tina Fey. Now, after listening to the audio version of her new memoir, Bossypants, I LOVE HER! She is a woman of the new millennium. Fey balances her work with her family and finds the humor in her busy life, such as, trying to film a segment of her show, 30 Rock, with Oprah while attempting to find the birthday supplies and gifts she needs to host her daughter's birthday party the next day. Her audio seems to be an honest recollection of stories from her childhood, college years, break into the entertainment business and her foray into parenthood. Along the way she offers advice that many woman and men will nod their heads to in agreement or laugh out loud at with knowing familiarity. I consider it a good lighthearted read. A little rough language, just in case you're listening to the audio version in your car with your kid, as I was. Would I recommend it......................Yes, and have a pleasant tomorrow!
If you are at all interested in reading this, do yourself a favor and don't. Please, instead, listen to it on audio narrated by Ms. Fey herself. It is an absolute delight - very funny, of course, but also topical, timeless and profound in many ways.
A series of essays tracing the life and career of Tina Fey. Fey is a great writer and humorist and her voice comes through. Some of the best essays have already appeared in the New Yorker. I especially liked her honesty and humor in the face of her repeat motherhood vs mega-hit TV show conundrum.
A great sort-of-memoir from Tina Fey. It's sprinkled with great career anecdotes about SNL, 30 Rock, and the oddities of portraying Sarah Palin on tv. It's obvious throughout why Tina is a comedy writer, she drops hilarious lines throughout the book like it was nothing. I did feel like it lost steam in the last 3 or 4 chapters (Tina herself asked readers what she should do with her last five minutes), but even so, I enjoyed the rest of it so much that five stars was the obvious rating. It's right up there with Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up," and it's a really should read for any and all actor/comedy type folks.
With sincere apologies to my other friends, many of whom are lovely people who have done wonderful things for me, I have to announce that Tina Fey is now my very best friend. While we don't agree on everything, we do agree on most things and, more importantly, we can laugh hysterically about the things we do not agree on. I listened to this audiobook in my car over a two-week period and I often laughed aloud alone in my car--well, not really alone because I always had the sense that Tina Fey was actually there with me, which is the real test of a memoir, especially one on audiobook. Also, it's not as if you're simply being treated to a stand-up routine (I've laughed aloud at many pure comedy albums). The book has political weight and personal substance--if this is a stand-up routine, it has more in common with George Carlin than Eddie Murphy. It helps, of course, that I am the perfect target audience for Tina Fey--a Generation X woman who grew up loving Star Trek and amateur theatre--but I suspect there are enough of us out there to keep this book on the best-seller list easily into the next decade--and we should.
Tina Fey's trade mark humor applied to her childhood and career. It's a fabulous view of her experience growing up (which was just as awkward as you would imagine) and how she gained entry into the world of comedy. She peppers in a fresh and funny feminist perspective, and does address some serious problems with attitudes towards women, especially in comedy, without breaking tone or flow. My favorite instance of this was her description of the title: "Ever since I became an executive producer of '30 Rock,' people have asked me ... 'Is it uncomfortable for you to be the person in charge?' You know, in the same way they say, 'Gosh, Mr. Trump, is it awkward for you to be the boss of all these people?'"
I'd initially decided not to bother with this book, even though it sounded funny, because I haven't really seen any of Tina Fey's work and I thought that might exclude me from great swathes of what she was writing about. Then I read a friend's glowing review of the audiobook and decided to give the paper version a try after all. The blurb on the back made me laugh, which seemed to bode well! Happily Fey has the same knack - like Caitlin Moran and Charlie Brooker - of making her writing accessible and hilarious even when the reader hasn't seen the sketches or shows being referenced, and I ended up really enjoying the insight into things like photoshoots and TV production, even when I wasn't familiar with the end results. There's also plenty about TV comedy, family and being a woman in the public eye, which I found thought-provoking and relatable even as it was making me smile. An easy, interesting and enjoyable read.
Neither humor nor memoirs are my usual reading choices. But if you like Tina Fey, you'll love Bossypants. It's half memoir, half stand-up routine, which is why it may fare better on audio, read by Ms. Fey herself. As other readers have mentioned, it is a bit chronologically disjointed, as stand-up comedy often is, but I had no trouble following along. Fey regales us with stories of growing up half Greek/half Irish in a small, WASP-ish Pennsylvania town; her college days and first loves (including one she refers to as "Handsome Robert Wuhl," or "HRW"); her breaks with Second City, 'Saturday Night Live,' and '30 Rock'; her honeymoon on a cruise ship that catches fire; and the joys and icks of motherhood. She's tactful enough not to bash any of the SNL guest hosts and gives us insights into working with some of them, including Sylvester Stallone and Sarah Palin. Having just finished a massive Trollope novel, this was a fluffy, delicious piece of cake. Recommended for Fey fans; not sure how well it would sit with others.
First, let me say that I really like Tina Fey. I think she is funny on "30 Rock", I really enjoyed "Date Night", in fact I saw it twice. I think she provided much comic relief to the torture that was/is Sarah Palin. But this book - Nope. Others, like Ms. Fey should be warned that writing for a television sit-com and writing a book are much different. She did not come across on paper as well on she does on screen. I laughed a few times, but sadly those laughs weren't worth the price of the book.