Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants by Tina Fey
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Released In: 2011
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Publisher’s Description:

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 all suspected: you’re no one until someone calls you bossy.

Tina Fey’s memoir is seriously funny. It’s essays about various events and times in her life, not a linear biography. Some dirt is dished, which you know makes me happy. There’s quite a bit on how she came to play Sarah Palin on SNL and what it was like to meet Sarah Palin in person. She’s also not afraid to talk about how woman are treated differently than men in the entertainment industry and not for the better. I was surprised in how much of the material in her book was about the unequal treatment of women in life in general. It was insightful and made me think and laugh at the same time.

She also talks about her personal life, including how she got the scar on her face which I have always been very curious about.

I listened to the audio version which was read by her. Of course that made the book even funnier. My only problem with it was that every once and a while she would rush through a punch line in a muttering voice and I couldn’t understand what she was saying. There is a PDF that goes with the audio version so you can see the photos that were in the book which was nice.

This is a hilarious celebrity memoir. I definitely recommend listening to it.