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

She is a genius, who you'd also not mind knowing.

Editing could use some help. Tina repeated phrases, as if part of a shoulda-been-discarded take was left in. Happened 3,4, maybe 5 times.

vulgar, real, fumny

Tina always makes,me laugh. the vulgarity caught me off guard but I kept listening despite my sensitivity to profanity because her experiences are so real even tome, a non-celebrity. I also found real words of wisdom which will come in handy

I love Tina Fey

She is fucking hilarious everyone listen to this book because well Tina Fey is the shit sexy voice hell yeah

Laughed out loud

This book made me love and appreciate Tina Fey even more than I already do! She is a smart comedian with great jokes, and she does impersonations better than she thinks. So enjoyable....I would listen to this book while running and want to keep going to hear more of her story.

entertaining and something learned

it was an interesting listen. would have liked to know about the scar and how she and the husband stumbled through love. but i am a romantic that way

Been meaning to, glad I did.

I got this book because I wanted a laugh, and to be inspired. Only Tina Fey can do both flawlessly. This book is a amazing combination of wonderful advice for almost every situation presented before a woman and a laugh out loud in your laundry mat comedy. Instead of shoveling the same old advice down your through that others, and yourself, dish out it raps these repeated tidbits of tried and true wisdom in layers of relatable humor that make you laugh and secretly learn something. A fantastic read I can see why it's on so many book lists on Pinterest.

More than funny...hilarious.

Would you listen to Bossypants again? Why?

Yes, just so I could laugh as hard as I did the first time I listened to it.

What about Tina Fey’s performance did you like?

ATTITUDE!

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

I would have liked to, but I didn't have time for that. However, now that I know the story, the next time I listen is going to have to be a time when I have more than 4 hours to spare so I can get the whole thing down in one shot.

Any additional comments?

This is more than a book. It is a story; a life story that has no real order. I expected it to be narrative, but it was so much more. Tina is the storyteller, and she is telling her own story. With Tina’s experience as an entertainer, she knows how to captivate her listener by using the comedic approach to a mundane adolescence. Without real chronology, Tina takes her listener through her interpretive brain of an awkward childhood in Upper Darby, PA. while humor follows her through her uncomfortable time at University of Virginia. As she climbed life’s ladder of success, her many anecdotes, while very funny, also give a nod to the harsh reality that she was performing in a world dominated by men. Behind the scenes, Saturday Night Live wasn’t so funny. She was tormented, and talks of the time when she grabbed the Sarah Palin character and let it fly. She talks about getting accepted into Second City in 1992 Chicago, and she takes you into the bowels of “30 Rock.” Tina narrates the book with the same voice as her character on 30 Rock. If you don’t like Tina Fey, her read is funny. If you do like Tina Fey, her read is hilarious.

Very entertaining!

Would you consider the audio edition of Bossypants to be better than the print version?

Yes, Tina Fey doesn't just read the book, she performs it. Very entertaining.

What about Tina Fey’s performance did you like?

She was truly funny and her delivery of some of the lines in the novel had me cracking up.

Any additional comments?

I listened to this audiobook while on a cross country road trip - it was the fastest 5 hours of the entire trip!

Wonderful!

I love Tina's writing and to hear it in her voice makes me laugh out loud in my tent alone at an Ashram. Great story telling from a woman I can relate to. Smart and witty, honest and strong. I highly recommend the audio book, but I am sure it's a great read as well. Congratulations, Tina.

Who Knew Don Fey is a Stud?

Would you listen to Bossypants again? Why?

Enjoyed Tina's delivery and her message that hard work and high standards trump all.

What did you like best about this story?

I enjoyed her chapter about her dad. Most people talk about their mom's lovingly - so it was a fresh twist to hear how she respected and appreciated her dad. It helps me appreciate (and understand her discipline.)

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

You could.