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

Can't imagine this in book form

Tina! You're too funny! Really enjoyed this, especially with her little sidebars. There were parts where I almost had to pull over I was laughing so hard.

Funny but also honest and poignant.

I actually managed for once to have both the audio and print versions of this book, and I thought - score! I can actually see the photo insert on an audio! Only to find out that for the first time, a PDF of the photo insert was included as a second download when I got the audio! Wow! Way to go Hachette Audio - you really stepped up with the technology and I hope other publishers follow. I have been complaining about this limitation to audio books for years but need to no more!

I thought this would be a good audio for me and my boyfriend to listen to on a long car trip, but he deemed it too girly and put in ear plugs so he could read his own book, although he did pop up and listen to parts, such as the chapter about "30 Rock" and the one about Ms. Fey's Sarah Palin impersonation. For the Palin bit, they used an actual clip from Saturday Night Live, showing once again the superiority of audio for certain types (humor, memoir) of books.

She reads clearly and with humor, if a little fast. Instead of a celebrity book about how fabulous her life is, Bossypants is mostly about how Tina is a pretty ordinary woman, with a life much like mine, albeit with a larger income (although in Manhattan it doesn't go much further.) She's very relatable, especially to women in her cohort. Her stories about her professional life are interspersed with stories about growing up, and those were mostly the ones that lost my BF. He didn't care about awkward adolescences, nursing, or other "girly" bits (his word), and I could see how certain stories were bound to lose him. But I enjoyed the book quite thoroughly. It was funny and self-deprecating, and I felt like Tina was a friend from elementary school telling me stories. Her background was familiar and homey. Perhaps it is simply because we are somewhat close in age, but I really felt like if I met her (especially back then), we would be friends.

I did periodically poke the BF to listen to funny parts like her honeymoon cruise that went terribly wrong, early days working in Chicago improv, and her inventive swearing. Hilarious, down-to-earth, and without a celebrity cliche to be found, Ms. Fey has written a thoroughly enjoyable memoir that women everywhere will love.

I love Tina Fey

I've became a follower of Tina Fey when I found out that she was the first female head writer of SNL. I watched her show 30 Rock from the first season loved it instantly. She's a female of my generation and I think she's perfectly imperfect and isn't afraid to show it. I'm sure Tina Fey's life is crazy and hectic as she is trying to do it all but man, she sure does make it look fun!

Best Audio Book I've Encountered

It's awesome. Download it, you will laugh and want to listen to it all at once... it's that good. I am re-listening now. Do it now!

HILARITY!

I don't think this book would have worked with anyone but Tina Fey narrating it. She's hilarious! The only reason that I didn't give the book 5 stars was because there were some chapters that I was bored by. Its not that the chapters themselves were boring, but comedy is a subjective thing and I didn't agree with her on the entire fashion chapter in terms of the funny.

But her stories about her dad, the drama summer camp she attended and the cruiselines cracked me up! Its a very funny book and I recommend listening to it with Tina speaking than reading it.

A Chuckle

OK, so I am not a laugh out loud kind of person. It takes a lot to get me to do that. There were a few moments in the book that brought me to an out loud laugh, but I did chuckle a lot. For that alone it was worth listening to. Laughing, even chuckling, makes you live longer. So listen and live! Maybe it'll add a couple of days or months to your life.

Nostalgia

Tina Fey is funny and acts as a tour guide through the years that made her who she is. Her dry self-deprecating humor is exactly what you would expect from 30 Rock and SNL alum. I laughed so much and enjoyed this quick listen.

so so so so good!

loved this! i love how animated she was and it was like talking to an old friend youve known forever ♡

Very Enjoyable!

Luv Tina Fey! This was a good read, but so much better when she performs it!

Good story

Tina’s book wasn’t exactly what I was expecting - I think I was looking for more “behind the scenes”? - but I ended up really liking it. I definitely enjoyed her as the reader. (Except her frequent, whispered side notes are so quiet and so fast, they cannot be understood. At all.) Thank you for sharing your story Tina!