• Bossypants

  • By: Tina Fey
  • Narrated by: Tina Fey
  • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (60,440 ratings)

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Bossypants

By: Tina Fey
Narrated by: Tina Fey
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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

Editor's Pick: Best of the Decade

Tina Fey wears the pants
"I still remember the first time I listened to Bossypants in 2011. I was a recent college grad and my tastes were embarrassingly snobby, but I liked Tina Fey and thought it would just be soooo subversive to listen to a best seller. Imagine my shock when Bossypants showed me how much pure, uncomplicated joy I could get from a book. I never looked back. Before Tina Fey we had Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and Joan Rivers, but Bossypants came at just the right moment when the floodgates were opening for women in comedy. Its best seller status made Tina Fey a household name and paved the way for excellent (hilarious) memoirs that would follow by Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, and so many more. Bossypants launched a cultural phenomenon. What I love best about Tina Fey’s book is her voice, both figuratively and literally. It's a joy to spend five and a half straight hours in her brain, hearing her perspective on comedy, career, and crushes gone awry. The audiobook's use of clips from Saturday Night Live was also revolutionary and elevated this memoir to a whole new level. No matter which comedy memoir I end up falling in love with next, Bossypants will always hold a special place in my heart as the first—and the decade’s best."—Rachel S., Audible Editor

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Great book!

I LOVED this book! I laughed out loud MANY times. Tina Fey is amazing. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good laugh.

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🤠🧡

This was everything I didn’t know I needed. Thank you Tina. For everything. Your words and voice and stories gave me such comfort and validation.

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Hilarious

Listening to Tina Fey read this book was incredibly entertaining!! I related to so much of what she described. Fantastic!

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True to Tina’s Vibe, delightful.

Bossypants as an audiobook is to comedy lovers, SNL and 30 Rock lovers as having the chance to see the Director’s cut of all 3 LOTR films is to nerds. It is exactly the book, but a little bit more. Yes, she highlights moments from her personal and professional life in a way that show influence on her most notable moments in the world of television and comedy writing. Yes, she talks to the reader as though you were sitting down to coffee with her, just talking out some stuff. Yes, the book sounds like her whether you listen to the audiobook (which is actually her) or read it, drawing from the memories of Tina we all have stored in our brains. This fabulous Fey has written something hilarious and sweet, surprising and also not at all surprising. I was at times inspired and at others amused, but at all times engaged and entertained. Thanks, Tina, for offering up your life for the entertainment and uplifting of these doofs who follow your career.

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Laughed out loud

Gosh, she's funny. But in between holding my ribs with laughter, I thought about some of the issues she mentioned. Definitely recommend!
Also, I want to be related to Don Fey.

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Tina told me to give it 5 stars.

She said if I didn't, a guy from the Bronx would come to my house and yell at me in Italian jibberish.

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Yes, Please!

Unbelievably Amazing!! Yes you must read it! That's said it, why do I have to have 15 words?

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Tina Fey is the Best

The funniest autobiography you are likely to listen to, performed by Tina Fey herself. Every paragraph is packed with humor and sometimes obscure pop-culture references that fans of Fey's writing have come to expect. It's as if the book is a lost episode of 30 Rock. Bonus content NOT in the print edition, plus a .pdf with photos.

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Love Tina!

Laugh out loud funny! I appreciated her humor as a 40-something woman and mom. It was also cool to hear back story to her time on SNL.

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This is why we love Tina Fey

She is funny, self-deprecating, interesting and she tells a great story of what her life was like in middle American, and then later at SNL.

I love that it was narrated by Tina--it kept us sane on a long car ride and then again on a cross country airplane trip with no other entertainment options...we were smiling the whole way.

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