Tina Fey's book
by Tina Fey
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Dec 2025 on Good Hang with Amy Poehler.
The general take
Rachel Sennott found Tina Fey's book meaningful during a formative time in her comedy career, particularly appreciating how it captured the experience of being among the early women shaping comedy as a group.
About
Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" ( Sunday Telegraph ). 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. 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 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.
Who said what
Rachel Sennott👍 Recommends
…Rachel discussing reading books by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as comedy inspiration
“And that's really nice. And I read your book. I read Tina's book when I was like in college and starting standup. And like, I feel like, especially when I think to like the beginning, when, when you're like the first, not the first women in comedy, but like you're forming a group.”
Good Hang with Amy Poehler — Rachel Sennottat 18:27
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