Title: Bossypants
Description: Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("it’s very Poseidon Adventure"), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Fey’s life is best detailed when she’s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on 30 Rock, and planning her daughter’s Peter Pan-themed birthday. Bossypants gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off. --[Kevin Nguyen][1]


  [1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000670181
Subjects: biography, autobiography, comedy, comedians, New York Times bestseller, nyt:combined_print_nonfiction=2011-05-28, Women comedians, Women television personalities, American wit and humor, Comedians, biography, Television personalities, Comedians, united states, nyt:combined_print_nonfiction=2012-03-03, Wit and humor, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2012-01-22, nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2011-04-24, Fey, tina , 1970-, Women comedians--united states--biography, Women television personalities--united states--biography, Women, Wit and humor as topic, Pn2287.f4255 a3 2011, 792.702/8092 b
Places: United States
People: Tina Fey, Tina Fey (1970-)