Tina Fey

of the 1939 Anna Mae Bullock, otherwise known as Tina Turner. The sweet southern Tennessee young woman, alongside her families imperfections,…

The book that I chose to read is called Bossypants by Tina Fey. I chose this book because of my interest in Tina Fey as an actress. I think that she is a perfect mix between comical and intelligent. I am very glad that I chose this book because I was able to learn about Fey’s life while laughing along the way. This book is a compilation of chapters that describe Fey’s life growing up. Each chapter is a different subject, including her childhood memories, teenage years working at a theatre…

than all these disgusting injectibles and implants. Isn’t it better to have a computer to it to your body than to have a doctor do it to your face” (Fey, 145). She writes that the technology is not going away and then compares the complaints from female critics about Photoshop to oil paintings, “… those people didn’t really look like that!” (Fey, 142). Fey goes on to say her beliefs that Photoshop should make someone look like they are having their best day, not like the are a younger baby-fied…

hysterical memoir. From female empowerment to learning how to grow up, Tina Fey uses specific stylistic choices to reach her audience, enabling her to communicate her many lessons. Fey’s casual, sarcastic diction and her use of rhetoric allow the mostly female audience to relate to Bossypants. In Bossypants, Fey’s target audience is clearly young to middle-aged women. This is made obvious through her choice of subject matter. Fey shares stories and lessons that she has learned to which many…

Critically analyze the star Tina Fey by considering the writing of Mean Girls: the movie, the musical, and the movie musical, which she originally adapted to a screenplay from the book Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman. The original movie, Mean Girls, from 2004 was adapted into a musical for the stage by Tina Fey, which premiered in Washington, DC, in 2017 and went to Broadway the following year. As well as most recently, twenty years after the original, the story was converted into a…

In “Confessions of a Juggler,” author Tina Fey describes her studies of how she’s dealing with her own assumptions about having a second baby and concludes that she was overthinking the situation. She states that women feel obligated to go to work then come home and do the cooking and cleaning, she states in the article that the topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield. Fey expresses that people underestimate her parenting style by asking her various of rude questions such as…

“Feyminism:” A New Standard of Feminism for a Nonstandard World Move over, Madonna: feminism has a new poster girl, and her name is Tina Fey! In a time where feminism has been corrupted by the patriarchy into the work of “feminazis,” Fey’s Bossypants proves that feminism is still a rational struggle for equality. Throughout the text, Fey describes obstacles against femininity in her life; readers learn of her struggles grasping womanhood, the subtle sexism on the Chicago comedy circuit, and the…

The way race has impacted society is it has taught us that we are judged by the color of our skin, thus having the Horatio Alger myth feels pointless because this myth says hard work and passion gets us where we are going when in reality we do not have that American theocracy we so wish for. In the response to the myth, we have the notion of the pull themselves up by the bootstraps when it simply is not true, people have learned to cheat, steal and lie to get to the top and pull a different card…

ridiculing their sanctimonious operations. Being a fan of this show, I absorb the powerful satire culture that it creates and am inspired to take action based on the ideas John Oliver proposes and add my own parodies in the mix. Tina Fey in the article “Confessions of a…

be in the office. They both thought that she provided material for comedians, such as Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live. Both Thomas and Cohen felt that it was an unwise decision made by John McCain. Another comparison was when…