I don't know that expecting much from a comedy writer's cash-in big-font-with-pictures essay/ fair, but I've been a Tina Fey fan since 30 Rock began, ready to trust her literary aspirations, and even to me this book barely scratches onto the two star plateau. Tina Fey's Bossypants was a disappointment. In 2009, Fey won an Emmy Award for her satirical portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance on SNL. In 2008, she starred in the comedy film Baby Mama, alongside Amy Poehler. In 2004, Fey made her film debut as writer and co-star of the teen comedy Mean Girls. In the series, Fey portrays the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series called 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at SNL.

During her time there, she was co-anchor of the show's Weekend Update segment. The following year, Fey was added to the cast of SNL. She was promoted to the position of head writer in 1999. Three years later, Fey became a writer for the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, who gave her their AP Entertainer of the Year award.Īfter graduating from the University of Virginia in 1992, Fey moved to Chicago to take classes at the improvisational comedy group The Second City, where she became a featured player in 1994.

She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards. ( From the publisher.Elizabeth Stamatina 'Tina' Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. ( Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!). Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy. 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. She has seen both these dreams come true.Īt last, Tina Fey's story can be told. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. 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.

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