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  • Written by: Tina Fey
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  • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,074 ratings)

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Written by: Tina Fey
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Publisher's Summary

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 of those 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.

Includes special, never-before-solicited opinions on breastfeeding, princesses, Photoshop, the electoral process, and Italian rum cake!

©2011 Tina Fey (P)2011 Hachette Audio

What the critics say

"I hope that's not really the cover. That's really going to hurt sales." (Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey)
"Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey's book until I've been dead a hundred years." (Mark Twain)
"Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny - oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (A Guy Turning into a Werewolf)

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funny!

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why do I need fifteen words? dumb requirements blah bla

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Just Enjoyable

It didn't feel like the story quite flowed well. May be better to read for yourself. Still some very funny parts.

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  • SK
  • 2022-07-31

I’m a Tina Fey fan…

… and am surprised not to have enjoyed this book. Turns out too much comedy/snark is as exhausting as too much drama. If I had it to do over, I’d probably still buy it but listen to it in very short segments.

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Loved it!

Tina Fey is a great storyteller! It was a fun book that made a long drive feel like minutes.

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Love her humour and the reading was perfect

A great read! I love it when a book is read by the author. Tina is so funny and inspiring

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Couldn't get into it

I love her shows, love her characters, but this book fell flat for me. She's one of the funniest people in her business, but for some reason her stories weren't relatable. I was hoping for more.

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One of my all time faves

Tina’s writing is absolutely hilarious and having her read the story is just the cherry on top.

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Very Funny!

I loved this audio book! Tina did an excellent job of writing and reading this work of hilarious art. There is a fresh joke every ten seconds. You have to listen closely to keep up!

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Laughed out loud many times

Loved this! Sometimes eye opening, always funny, this was a great listen, and the included PDF is a MUST SEE.

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Witty and entertaining

The perfect in between, Tina fey is witty, real, and just downright funny. Loved listening to her accounts as she rose in Comedy!

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  • Warren
  • 2011-04-07

Tina Fey broke my new SUV

With 3124 on my new SUV's odometer, I was laughing so hard listening to Tina that I clipped a cement highway divider driving to work.

That's not the funny part.

I kept on laughing.. Tina Fey is like comedic Oxytocin.

Buy this book. Keep both hands on the wheel.

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  • David Riley
  • 2011-04-07

Superb.

I am enjoying this book just as much as 30 Rock. It's brilliant and not particularly sappy, and Tina Fey does the reading of the book credit as well (some authors are not such great readers, but this is certainly not the case!).

To those who can't seem to find the PDF mentioned occasionally in the audio book: you can download it from the "library" section right under to the link for the book. It's not essential, but it's nice.

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  • Theodore
  • 2011-09-10

Witty and Funny

If you like Tina Fey, you will like this title The book is simply entertaining to say the least, funny, witty, insightful and generally a feel-good book. Its one of those books that you will have you cracking up from the get go. The book chronicles her life and her rise to being 'Tina Fey' we all like to laugh with and at. Childhood, teenage years, a view of her parents, SNL, Sarah Palin skit and the 30 Rock. Utterly funny through and through and you will not find a section that you cannot find some laughs in. A great listen!

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  • Elliott Johns
  • 2011-04-09

Elliott

Don't listen to this book while driving. Telling the cop after an accident that an audiobook made you shoot coffee out your nose is not a good enough excuse apparently. A side note for people looking for the PDF, go to your library at audible look under the title (Bossypants) and right under that are the letters PDF. click on that and magically, the PDF shows up on your computer. taa-daa! Funny funny book

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  • Diane
  • 2011-04-10

Thoroughly entertaining!

I loved this book so much that I didn't want to turn it off. I was listening to it while hiking at the mountain and I got some amused looks when passers-by saw me laughing out loud. It's funny, interesting, insightful and honest. My only disappointment is that it ended.

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  • S
  • 2011-04-06

Great book--great listen!

She's just amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed this book! She takes us from her life as a kid in Philly to writing/starring/producing 30 Rock with the sharp wit and self deprecation that we've come to know her for. It's especially interesting to listen to what's going on behind the scenes at SNL or 30 Rock and how certain decisions were made (Sarah Palin, casting 30 Rock, etc...)

And of course, her asides are hilarious.

Loved it!

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  • justin
  • 2011-04-12

Warning for men.

Tina fey launches another salvo in her feminist war on men by causing me to me to laugh my d-ck off. Inexcusable! They will be hearing from my lawyers.

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  • ste
  • 2018-04-22

Disappointed, bored

What would have made Bossypants better?

Some funny! I can’t believe she’s a comedian the book is so boring.

Has Bossypants turned you off from other books in this genre?

Nope

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

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  • WordNerd
  • 2011-06-03

Meh

Love Tina Fey but was disappointed with this book. Her narration, while expressive and enjoyable, contained so many sotto voce asides where the volume dropped off so much that it was difficult to hear, therefore I frequently missed portions of the material the first time around. I ended up having to skip backward and turn up the volume to hear those parts - very frustrating. Also, based on other reviews I was expecting laugh-out-loud funny, but this didn't deliver. If you like Tina, you'll like this; amusing, but not a "must read."

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  • Sinlan
  • 2011-04-07

Truely enjoyable.

Absolutely awesome audiobook. It's almost always better when the author narrates their own book and in this case Tina's narrative definitely makes Bossypants one of the most enjoyable books I've listened to/read so far.

Her comments and jokes are witty and finely crafted, yet they're presented as an effortless, logical, and mostly hilarious conclusion to the situation she's in. It's everything you hoped it would be.


(Just FYI: the PDF she refers to in the audiobook can be downloaded from "my library" once you've bought the audiobook. )

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  • lizziloo
  • 2021-06-22

great and funny book

Very light and easy to listen audio book. There were chapters towards the end that weren't edited right, you could hear Tina repeat the same sentence in different ways. A bit of a rookie mistake for a big firm like audible...

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  • deirdre
  • 2021-05-16

Biography of a very funny successful comedian

As someone who almost never watches TV and has not seen more than one episode of 30 Rock or perhaps not even one, the only time this biography got a bit dull was one chapter heavily based on TV — references to TV referencing TV referencing TV. Even then I can still appreciate it the insight into creative process of a team of professional improvisers. Actual sketch excerpts were well chosen and entertaining. The Sarah Palin-Hillary Clinton sketch is as funny as ever, and its cool to learn how this career highlight was a real challenge, reluctantly accepted. Brilliant encouraging book for anyone interested in showbiz, improv, motherhood, leadership or memoir in general. A good compliment to the equally funny Rachel Dratch biog also available as audiobook by author.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2018-06-21

Bof.

La manière totalement aléatoire de séparer le livre en 77 chapitres n'était pas du tout pratique.
De plus, les anecdotes de sa vie personnelle étaient trop nombreuses par rapport à celle concernant sa carrière/vie professionnelle. Dommage, car Tina Fey est une actrice intéressante que j'aime beaucoup.

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  • Customer from France
  • 2018-04-27

Tina Fey is bossy and wears pants

this review will have fifteen words just to satisfy the nerd who made that requirement