Tina Fey is one of the world's greatest comic writers and performers. Bossy Pants is her first book.

I reached under the bed for the whiskey bottle. Little freckles of blood dotted the sheets under my shoulder. Oh God, another tattoo? I pulled at my skin 'til I could see the twisted ink. It was the Chinese word for 'celtic symbol'.


...is just a brief example of what you will not find in this book!

'What's your deal?' asked Anthony Kiedis as he stroked my cheek...with a Wheat Thin.
'I'm a writer,' I said, sounding more like a little girl than I wanted to.
It was that night that I had the idea for Avatar.

...is neither true nor in the book! But it is a product placement for Wheat Thins!


'Mightily enjoyable ... Bossypants shows that 30 Rock's voice is very much Fey's voice: pithy, smart and as ironic as being run over by an ambulance ... if she has a point to make, if she feels something deeply, she can make it funny. That's why she is a great comedian'
The Times

'My love for the divine Tina Fey is river deep, mountain high ... Bossypants is as hilarious, candid and self-deprecating as fangirls like me would expect'
Lauren Laverne, Grazia

'Wry, clever, biting and brilliant'
Daily Telegraph


...are things people really said about this book.


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Cover design by Mario J. Pulice
Cover photograph by Ruven Afanador

ISBN: 978 0 751 54783 2

Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.

Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and '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.

She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately half-hearted 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.

Tina Fey reveals all in this hilarious memoir, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.