Fey What?

Over at the new Newsweek, Anna Holmes has trouble with Tina Fey's memoir Bossypants. Holmes (who's been parodied by Fey) believes Fey's going for easy laughs, when the book gives her an important opportunity to go deeper:

...this is a memoir, not a humor sketch, and Fey is in the unique and enviable position to say something important and definitive: about being a woman, about boys’ clubs, about contemporary feminism and female representations in pop culture. (I can go on.)

No need to, we get the point. Perhaps Fey didn't want to write that book. I'm also guessing a lot less people would have wanted to read it.  But maybe Holmes is right. And who knows, maybe if Fey had written it that way, Holmes would be even more ticked off.

Actually, what interested me the most was this line:  "...despite her prodigious talents, she can be a little too clever by half." I don't think you can be a "little" too clever by half--it's a pretty distinct measurement (of cleverness and Newsweek's editing).