She came to work alongside her good friend, Amy Poehler, who taught Tina that it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks about what someone is doing, advice which Tina then conveys to the reader. From the Second City, Tina was hired to write for Saturday Night Live in 1997. She also came to love the Second City because it is where she met her future husband, Jeff.Īs Tina writes, she frequently interrupts her narrative with aside chapters, ranging on everything from the use of Photoshop (which she believes is relatively harmless) to weight (which she believes everyone, thin or fat, should leave everyone alone about) before returning to the arc of her life. It is through the Second City that Tina realized just how much she loved the art of improv, because it forces people to use their intelligence, to be creative, and to work without a script, props, or anything else. Tina also relates her difficulties in finding dates or feeling like she truly fit in through college, as blonde girls were the “in-thing.” Following college and having earned a degree in drama, Tina moved to Chicago where she took work at the local YMCA before being signed on with the Second City, a well-known improv and comedy group theater. Tina explains that this sort of behavior–of females hurting females–is unacceptable. There, she helped sabotage another girl’s acting in order to get revenge on her for stealing Tina’s boyfriend. Among the reasons is having such a strong presence by way of her father, who was firm but loving in raising Tina.Īs a teenager, Tina was exposed to acting while working at a local summer theater camp. Born in 1970 in a suburb of Philadelphia to two loving parents, Jeanne and Don, Tina remembers enjoying her childhood. She also explains that her book is about the child growing into an adult who still wants to be a child. Tina welcomes readers and explains that everyone will find something of relevance in her book. Bossypants is a memoir by Tina Fey which recounts episodes from her life in conjunction with her career as a comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock.
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