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A hilarious and book from Tina Fey - definitely worth listening to over audio as she reads it herself. She makes fun of herself a lot, adds lots of light humor, and of course shares TMI.
The most interesting bit was hearing the behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live, and how she was a joke writer there for 3 years before they gave her a role on the show, which was only doing the news. Her breakout occurred after she had already left for 30 Rock, when she did the Sarah Palin impersonation. Tina ...more
The most interesting bit was hearing the behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live, and how she was a joke writer there for 3 years before they gave her a role on the show, which was only doing the news. Her breakout occurred after she had already left for 30 Rock, when she did the Sarah Palin impersonation. Tina ...more
This book...it's like Lean In, but with more funnies! Apparently Tina Fey knows a thing or two about a thing or two, including but not limited to:
-Thriving as a female in a male dominated profession
-Recognizing the conflicting messages females are given about their bodies through the media
-How to throw a Peter Pan Birthday Party
-Explaining THE STAR of SNL how his opinion isn't the be-all and end-all, just because he doesn't like it when you're unladylike
And so on. But told in a very very very ve ...more
-Thriving as a female in a male dominated profession
-Recognizing the conflicting messages females are given about their bodies through the media
-How to throw a Peter Pan Birthday Party
-Explaining THE STAR of SNL how his opinion isn't the be-all and end-all, just because he doesn't like it when you're unladylike
And so on. But told in a very very very ve ...more
IT IS SO EXCITING.
I love Tina Fey even more after reading this. This is the kind of book that is not real in the sense that you would never be interested in reading it if she weren't famous, but that's too bad, because one should be interested in reading the funny mini-essays by a smart, imperfect writer.
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