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A review by immakingt0ast
Bossypants by Tina Fey
5.0
“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”
This is the funniest audiobook I've read since [b:Scrappy Little Nobody|29868610|Scrappy Little Nobody|Anna Kendrick|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1469410391s/29868610.jpg|45352758]. It might even be funnier than [b:Crazy Rich Asians|16085481|Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1)|Kevin Kwan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1364852559s/16085481.jpg|21571970]. Maybe.
I would not have considered myself a Tina Fey fan before, mainly because I'm generally unfamiliar with her body of work. I saw Sisters and thought it was pretty funny, and I remember laughing at all of the Sarah Palin / Weekend Update stuff from SNL years ago but I'd never seen an episode of 30 Rock.
Well. I'll have you know that since I started listening to this audiobook 2 days ago, I have now binge watched 14 episodes of 30 Rock and now I absolutely consider myself a Tina Fey fan.
She is absolutely riotous. I'm not the type of person that laughs out loud when I'm alone, but this book definitely had me giggling at the gym. Her writing is polished, funny, and more importantly, it's funny while being insightful. She discusses typical memoir stuff where she grew up, how she got into acting and even a particularly funny bit about being a straight kid at a (mostly) gay theater camp and having a pair of lesbian best friends named Sharon and Karen. I also greatly enjoyed the ballsy, feministy way she sticks it to all the people that told her (and others) that they weren't funny enough because they were women:
"It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist."
I have also come to the conclusion that I greatly prefer audiobooks that are read by the authors, and Fey does a wonderful job of bringing the humor to life that you wouldn't have gotten in the print version. There's just something about having the author read you their own words that makes it seem like they're talking straight to you and makes them seem real and human. Which they are... and in the case of Tina Fey, an immensely successful, intelligent, and anxiety ridden actual human.
5 Stars. I would recommend this to anyone that has a sense of humor or enjoys laughing. Would not recommend to staunch Republicans.
This is the funniest audiobook I've read since [b:Scrappy Little Nobody|29868610|Scrappy Little Nobody|Anna Kendrick|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1469410391s/29868610.jpg|45352758]. It might even be funnier than [b:Crazy Rich Asians|16085481|Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1)|Kevin Kwan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1364852559s/16085481.jpg|21571970]. Maybe.
I would not have considered myself a Tina Fey fan before, mainly because I'm generally unfamiliar with her body of work. I saw Sisters and thought it was pretty funny, and I remember laughing at all of the Sarah Palin / Weekend Update stuff from SNL years ago but I'd never seen an episode of 30 Rock.
Well. I'll have you know that since I started listening to this audiobook 2 days ago, I have now binge watched 14 episodes of 30 Rock and now I absolutely consider myself a Tina Fey fan.
She is absolutely riotous. I'm not the type of person that laughs out loud when I'm alone, but this book definitely had me giggling at the gym. Her writing is polished, funny, and more importantly, it's funny while being insightful. She discusses typical memoir stuff where she grew up, how she got into acting and even a particularly funny bit about being a straight kid at a (mostly) gay theater camp and having a pair of lesbian best friends named Sharon and Karen. I also greatly enjoyed the ballsy, feministy way she sticks it to all the people that told her (and others) that they weren't funny enough because they were women:
"It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist."
I have also come to the conclusion that I greatly prefer audiobooks that are read by the authors, and Fey does a wonderful job of bringing the humor to life that you wouldn't have gotten in the print version. There's just something about having the author read you their own words that makes it seem like they're talking straight to you and makes them seem real and human. Which they are... and in the case of Tina Fey, an immensely successful, intelligent, and anxiety ridden actual human.
5 Stars. I would recommend this to anyone that has a sense of humor or enjoys laughing. Would not recommend to staunch Republicans.