Recalling the certain horrors of growing up as a nerd becomes more palatable when Cool Dork Tina Fey chronicles her own humble—often humiliating—youth. She recently did just that on the Graham Norton Show, with, of course, some prompting from the host.
Seated between Kurt Russell and Josh Widdicombe (who also reveals some childhood embarrassments) Fey describes a particularly catastrophic haircut, produced “by folding my face in half and cutting out a heart” and her first experience trying on a bra. If your mother also made of a habit of finding especially traumatic ways to shop for undergarments, well, take solace. In 1980, a ten-year-old Tina stood mortified in the middle of J.C. Penney as her mother obliged her to try on a bra over her clothes.