Bossypants by Tina Fey, Sphere, $32.99.
Before she perfected her Sarah Palin impersonation, Tina created and played the sparky, sharp-tongued Liz Lemon on TV’s 30 Rock.
Before that, she was first female head writer in the legendary boys’ club of Saturday Night Live.
Now she’s queen of American comedy and this memoir shows you why — because Tina Fey is smart and self-deprecating and hilariously funny.
She frets about the same things we all do — dress size, food attacks, juggling motherhood with work — but makes them jokes rather than mortal sins.
And while you won’t learn a whole lot more about Tina Fey in her so-called memoir, you will enjoy the sheer fun and sass (not to mention truth) of observations like why it is that older men in comedy can work forever, while their female counterparts are all deemed crazy.
Because — excuse the language — “I suspect the definition of ‘crazy’ in showbusiness is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f**k her any more”.
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