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Yes. Tina Fey: Bossypants has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Tina Fey.

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The Tina Fey: Bossypants audiobook runs 5 hr 32 min.

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Our score

4.2/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDApril 2011

Genres

Non-Fiction Memoir Humor

Themes

Women, comedy, and authorityWorking motherhood and double standardsThe making of a comedy careerSelf-deprecation as armor

Tina Fey: Bossypants

Name: Tina Fey: Bossypants
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Author: Tina Fey

Tina Fey

Tina Fey's Bossypants is a sharp, fast, genuinely funny comic memoir that doubles as a field guide to being a woman in charge of a room. It moves from an awkward Pennsylvania girlhood through Second City and SNL to running 30 Rock, joking the whole way.

The Review

Our take

Fey writes the way her best comedy works: tight, smart, and faster than you can fully brace for. Bossypants isn't a confessional memoir and never pretends to be — it's a collection of essays built for laughs, with the self-deprecation cranked high and the private life kept firmly offstage. What's underneath the jokes, though, is a surprisingly clear-eyed account of how a particular kind of funny, ambitious woman actually climbs, and the climbing is the most interesting thing here.

The comedy itself is the main event, and it largely delivers. She's wonderful on the indignities of girlhood and early adulthood, on the improv apprenticeship at Second City, on the strange machine of Saturday Night Live and the now-legendary turn as Sarah Palin during a fevered election. Her best running argument is about women and authority: how she learned to lead a writers' room, why she stopped trying to win over people determined not to like her, what it costs to be the boss while also being expected to be likable. It's advice disguised as comedy, and the disguise is good.

The book's looseness cuts both ways. Because it's assembled from set pieces, it can feel scattered, and a reader hoping for a deeper or more vulnerable memoir will notice how carefully Fey guards the door. The chapter built around photo-shoot satire and a few of the lighter bits feel like filler beside the SNL and 30 Rock material, and the relentless joke-per-line pace means real feeling rarely gets to sit still. Fey clearly prefers a punchline to a confession, and that's a deliberate, slightly frustrating choice.

Still, the voice is the draw, and it's irresistible — wry, exacting, allergic to self-pity. When she writes about working motherhood, or about the absurd double standards applied to women in comedy, she's pointed without being preachy, landing the critique inside the laugh. You finish understanding not just her career but a whole comedy ecosystem and the particular obstacle course women run through it.

There's a generosity to her comedy that's easy to miss under the speed. Fey is rarely cruel; even her sharpest material about colleagues, network notes, or her own appearance tends to turn the blade back on herself or on a system rather than on a person. That instinct gives the book a likability that survives its scattershot structure, and it models the very thing she's describing — how to be exacting and funny without becoming the kind of boss everyone dreads. Her chapter on producing, on the thankless arithmetic of running a show while a hundred people need answers, is the closest the book comes to a thesis, and it's quietly excellent.

Why you should read

Anyone who likes smart, fast comic essays
Fans of SNL, 30 Rock, and improv lore
Readers who want comedy with something to say about work
People who quote favorite lines for weeks

What to expect

Joke-per-line pace and tight comic timing
Essay-collection looseness over a continuous arc
A guarded approach to private life
Real insight on women and authority

It's a quick read that's smarter than it lets on, the kind of book you finish in a sitting and quote for weeks. Bossypants won't tell you Tina Fey's secrets, but it will make you laugh out loud and, almost incidentally, hand you a real education in how competence and humor can carry a person to the top of a brutal business.

Reviewed by Ellis · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.2/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of Tina Fey: Bossypants?: Yes. Tina Fey: Bossypants has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Tina Fey.
Listen to Tina Fey: Bossypants free with an Audible trial
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How long is the Tina Fey: Bossypants audiobook?: The Tina Fey: Bossypants audiobook runs 5 hr 32 min.
Is Tina Fey: Bossypants on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Tina Fey: Bossypants was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 2, 2026.
How much does Tina Fey: Bossypants cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $8.99, Paperback $8.90, Hardcover $8.89. Prices as of August 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.

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What is Tina Fey: Bossypants about?: Fey writes the way her best comedy works: tight, smart, and faster than you can fully brace for. Bossypants isn't a confessional memoir and never pretends to be — it's a collection of essays built for laughs, with the self-deprecation cranked high and the private life kept firmly offstage. What's…
Is Tina Fey: Bossypants worth reading?: We scored Tina Fey: Bossypants 4.2 out of 5. Tina Fey's Bossypants is a sharp, fast, genuinely funny comic memoir that doubles as a field guide to being a woman in charge of a room. It moves from an awkward Pennsylvania girlhood through Second City and SNL to running 30 Rock, joking the whole way.