Yes Please

Amy Poehler

Yes Please
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country
Australia
Published
1 November 2014
Pages
352
ISBN
9781743534151

Yes Please

Amy Poehler

Part memoir, part stand-up, part exorcism, Yes Please is a wise, hilarious and candid collection of stories, ideas, mantras, confessions, haikus, and words-to-live-by drawn from the real life (and alternate realities) of acclaimed actress, writer, comedian and mother of two, Amy Poehler. Yes Please finds Amy riffing on sex, love, birth, marriage, divorce, family, friendship, motherhood, plastic surgery, life as an acting double for Meryl Streep and the joys of having a ‘face for wigs’.

Amy Poehler is an eight-time Emmy nominee, two-time Golden Globes host (with ‘life partner’ Tina Fey) and one the most beloved entertainers in the world thanks to nine years on Saturday Night Live, an ongoing role as creator/star of the Parks & Recreation and star turns in films Blades of Glory and Baby Mama. In 2011, Amy was named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the World. She lives in New York and Los Angeles with her two sons. Yes Please is her first book.

Review

If you’ve never heard of Amy Poehler … well, if you’ve never heard of Amy Poehler, Yes Please might not be the book for you. But for those who are familiar with the comedian, writer and actress, Yes Please is exactly the kind of book you think it will be. With a mixture of memoir, advice and humour, Poehler is as vibrant and charming on the page as she is off it. She writes that it is difficult for her to sit quietly, without saying anything, and that never-sit-still energy is very apparent in Yes Please as she bounces from topic to topic.

This book will especially appeal to anyone interested in comedy. Poehler takes an in-depth look at her early career in improv (‘improvisation was about not being cool’, she advises) and details her time with both the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Saturday Night Live. There’s also a terrific chapter on Parks and Recreation that provides an insider’s perspective on the creative decisions that built the show from its shaky first season into one of the most lovable comedy series on television today.

Yes Please is chatty, funny and engaging. Poehler is warm and generous about almost everyone she mentions (including her ex-husband) and candid about her own flaws, even devoting a whole chapter to a misstep she made on Saturday Night Live and her subsequent failure to make things right with the offended party for a very long time.

Poehler makes it clear in the book that she doesn’t believe in lucky breaks. She believes in hard work and talent, and Yes Please demonstrates just that; the funny stories and words of wisdom of a successful, multi-talented woman who has worked very hard to get where she is today. Buy this book for anyone in your life who needs a little inspiration.


Nina Kenwood

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