Bossypants

By: Tina Fey

Narrated by: Tina Fey

Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

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!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2011 Tina Fey (P)2011 Hachette Audio

Tina Fey fans won't be disappointed

My wife and I identify with Fey's quirky, self-deprecating style, and find ourselves rooting for her and her career as we've watched it unfold over the years. This book offers nice insights into how she got to where she is, and reveals Fey, unsurprisingly, as thoughtful, grounded, and most-of-all, funny.

The book is short, but not overly so. It felt about right for the subject matter, though I'd have more questions for her if I ever met her.

This book is not Tina-takes-on-the-boys-club and claws her way to the top, which is what I'd feared. It's not Sun-Tzu for chicks. This is a light, well-done memoir. I'm glad I bought it, and I recommend it.

Absolutely Brilliant!

Tina gets the full 5 stars for delivering a brilliant story and a thoroughly enjoyable narration. She is 100% contemporary, razor sharp and unapologetically normal. You love her because she demands to be self-defined as a non-celebrity but at the same time, totally gets the celebrity scene which she somehow stumbled into. She wants you to know, understand, what SNL is about, what that world is like and how she got there. And sure, as some have mentioned, there are huge woman-centric sections and laughs that are more for the girls than for the boys, but who cares! If you're a guy, just go with it. Because you'll soon realize that Tina Fey is the closest we've come to another Lucille Ball in decades. Pure genius.

Fans of Tina Fey, This Book Won't Let You Down

If you could sum up Bossypants in three words, what would they be?

Humorous, Insightful, Self-Deprecating

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

This book can easily be broken down, chapter by chapter, to listen to over your commute to work. However, I enjoyed it in almost two sittings while completely some repetitive but necessary tasks at work. Fey was able to keep me from going insane while completing these ridiculous tasks; something I think she would be proud of.

LOL

Don’t listen while on a flight-your fellow passengers will be concerned that you are not being supervised on the flight!

As a matter of fact, I WILL buy this for my sister

...mother, and best friend. I wish I had the creativity to string together a series of brilliant filthy words to praise this book. EFFING FANTASTIC. Tina Fey, you are a wealth of smart, irreverent, human humor. You are more adorable than a polydactyl cat, sharp as an overpriced Williams Sonoma knife, and FUNNY AS HELL.

She's One of the Best!

I love Tina Fey and always will! Thanks for sharing and personally telling your story! You rock! :)

Funny

Fey's ability to compose a true-to-life story and pepper it with gag after gag kept me laughing out loud in the car, in my back yard and in the supermarket. More. Please.

TINA FEY

One may get a sense of Tina Fey’s book by watching Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the 2013 Golden Globes’ fete. If one liked Fey and Poehler’s performance at the Golden Globes, “Bossypants” will be a belly laugh; if not, “Bossypants” is a face plant.

“Bossypants” is a brief history of Fey’s rise to fame, the early days of high school and college, the struggle to find a paying job, the break at Second City Chicago,and the growing success of “30 Rock”. Along the way Fey explains marriage, motherhood, and the genesis of the Palin parody.

Inter-weaved in her story are Fey’s views on women’s rights, gay rights, politics, and the essence of improvised theater.

Bossypants is a fun listen with Tina Fey’s comic timing, writing, and direction.

Funny!

This book is absolutely hysterical... and really... You just can't NOT love Tina Fey!

Hilarious and Inspiring!

A great book for men and women of all ages. I have listened to it twice, and I love it. Its funny and charming, and Tina gives some great insight on succeeding in life and in your career. I will definitely listen to this book again! And so great that its narrated by Tina Fey, the experience is so much more profound because you hear her story from her. Loved it!