For example: the first female head writer at SNL, Emmy Award winner, Writers Guild award winner and recipient of the Kennedy Center Annual Mark Twain Prize for American humor. It's just a great read from a mature thinker.įey's stories from The Second City comedy theater in Chicago, Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock make it abundantly clear that she is adept at negotiating any and all obstacles in the workplace. It's honest and intimate, without any maudlin tales of childhood sorrow, no extraneous snark or hit-and-run tell-all gossip. Now that we are well into the oughts and their careers have taken off, while I spend more time NyQuil napping and loitering in bookstores, things feel more just - somehow corrected.īossypants is not so much a memoir as it is a sort of here's-what-happened-and-why-I think-this kind of book. And I could only assume they were as perplexed by my success as I was. They were always so much funnier, and so much younger, than me. Especially when I knew Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. And I was frequently ashamed of that fact. Career wise things were going very well for me. Switching gears for a second: I'd like to reach back to the turn of the century, specifically the 1990s. Not just a trite expression in this case it is literally true. I guess, as they say, I couldn't put it down.

I received Tina Fey's new book, Bossypants, last Friday and read it straight through until 7:40 Saturday morning.

Bossypants book review