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Tina Fey

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!

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Author

Tina Fey

Pages

304

Publisher

Little, Brown

Published Date

2011-04-05

ISBN

0316175862 9780316175869

Ratings

Google: 4

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"Such a great read! "

Hannah Morris

"My husband got me this book years ago and I sat on it forever. But suddenly I saw it as “available now” as an audiobook through my library and I grabbed it and I don’t know why I didn’t read it straight up all those years back! I don’t know what it is about comedian memoirs, but they are the most charming and full of interesting warts, they’re just great."

CaitVD

"Read it a long time ago and I remember that it made me laugh. "

sunshine

"I absolutely LOVED this book! Fey always comes across as someone you just want to have a coffee with and bitch about the world. "

JoeyMarie

"Tina Fey has my heart and soul. You can really hear her voice in this book and getting to read about her experiences felt like watching a marathon of 30Rock which was great. I loved getting to see how many snippets from her real life she inserted into her show."

Kate Hanson

"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"

Jacquelynne AB

"Just as she is, her book does not disappoint. "

Maria Molinari

"So Tina fey is an amazing comedian and listening to her tell stories about her childhood and her improv comedy roots and how she got a job on SNL is amazing. She's hilarious because she is real and honest. she doesn't BS. Specifically my favorite chapter has to be things I've learned from Lorne Michaels. Her story about giving constructive criticism to Sylvester Stallone about his annunciation was hilarious! When she talks about her SNL years and how she feared that 30 rock was going to end after the first season. It shows you that people in show business have real fears about life not going according to plan. I loved this book because it's so fun to listen to a personal perspective of an SNL cast member from the golden years!! when women took over the show and dominated it, she was there watching it all happen. I think it's great how tenacious she is!!"

Finn Hughes

"I will admit I don’t know much about Tina Fey outside of the SNL Sarah Palin and a few of her teen-targeted film roles. This book didn’t clear much up, in that regard. This is not a deep dive. It’s not especially funny. She doesn’t share her feeling about much of anything. She comes off as judgmental and superior the very few times she shares opinions. (We get it. You think body modification of all kind are tacky.) She grazes the surface of several potentially touching aspects, then always stops short of anything humanizing. It’s a pretty cool glance behind the scenes of how the shows work from beyond the camera. Side note: it’s very strange to be reading this book from the 2024 perspective. Especially with the political joke highlights."