MixedThe Observer (UK)Oh Tina. I do slightly wish you hadn\'t. And I say this from a place of love. It\'s just that why, if you\'re the pre-eminent female comedy writer of your generation, the genius behind 30 Rock, the woman who gave the world the other Sarah Palin, the most influential female comedian working today, would you want to throw yourself on the rocks that have smashed so many before you: the comedy book. Worse, the comedy memoir, although Bossypants takes the interesting approach to memoir of remembering almost nothing, and providing \'revelations\' that might more accurately be called \'concealments\' ... Which isn\'t to say that it\'s unenjoyable. There are some hugely funny bits, and some inspiring bits, and some nerdishly interesting bits, and some bits that read like essays in the New Yorker (which in fact two of the chapters were). There\'s lots to enjoy, particularly if you are, as I am, a Tina Fey fan girl. It\'s just the bookiness of it. Fey is out of her genre, and it shows: it takes an age to get going, and it\'s less like prose non-fiction than a sketch comedy in book form, with a disproportionate number of one-liners, not all of which work ... Fey\'s strength as a writer and a performer is that she\'s never been afraid to make comedy out of female vulnerability, or to twist it around, to invert it, to give it a provocative edge. And so it is here ... njoyable, then, but as a fan girl, I have to say that I do slightly wish she\'d stick to the genre she does so superlatively well: television comedy.
