A quick, fun read centred around Fey's experiences in comedy. These range from improvisation and theatre work to writing (and eventually performing) on television shows like Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. To be perfectly honest, I've never actually seen an episode of either of those shows, so this seems like a strange book for me to read! But Fey's a household name and I was wandering the aisles of the library, waiting for the rain to let up so I could walk home and there it was, so why not. I gobbled it down in one afternoon, after a month or so of hardly being able to read anything, and it's a relief to feel my reading desert may have ended! This is a good book to get back into my favourite hobby - it's funny, relatively short, with snappy chapters that are sometimes lists, and if none of it goes particularly deeply into anything that's really the kind of reading material I need right now: amusing and not requiring a great deal of effort on my part. (Stuck between the conference presentation of the near past and the conference presentation of the near future, my brain is on strike against further effort.)

Fey comes across as likeable and entertaining, anyway. And I'm tempted to go out and watch 30 Rock now, if only to see the bit with the pigeons.