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By: Amy Poehler (Author)
Reviews
Juan C. Velandia –
I had no idea how much I needed Poehler in my life!
I have always liked Amy Poehler. After this book, I LOVE HER! Such rawness and honesty is refreshing, that’s the kind of people I like and she’s exactly like that in this, her first (And hopefully not last) book. Her life story is not very different from the rest, and she knows it. So she makes fun of it and tells her own stories with lots of wit and acid humor… And in her audiobook, she even has special guests to have fun with! Kathleen Turner as her the dark voice in her head is hilarious, Patrick Stewart reading Plastic Surgery Haiku is to die for… And the rest are SO great!!!Her style is not unique, it’s very SNL / improv influenced, and it’s more than obvious, that’s where she worked and absolutely nailed it as Hillary Clinton. Poehler is pretty much a middle-class girl from a standard home she could be anyone of us, but she’s an absolute QUEEN of comedy, one of the best children that SNL gave to the world, along with her whole generation (Tina Fey, Rachel Dracht, Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers, and so many more).She sounds familiar but unique at the same time, she’s one of a kind when she laughs and cracks jokes, and punches you right in the heart when talking about her trip to Haiti and her beautiful children. This is not a random writing of silly stories, this is well thought out book filled with inspiring memories, difficult times, lots of reality and straight messages to the reader. There’s no subtext here, only a straightforward Poehler doing what she does best and laughing her way through it..And what a run she has!This is not just a book to laugh with, is the story of a life… And what a life she had! I’m sure she can fill up ten books with just stand-up and improve anecdotes (which I’d love to hear), but this debut as a book writer is everything I didn’t know I needed in my life.And please, don’t miss the audiobook, it’s absolutely hilarious!!!
Jessie Family –
Amy Poehler fans will enjoy
I was bothered at the very beginning when Amy took WAY TOO LONG trying to convey how ‘hard’ it is to write a book, we get it Amy, it’s tough, but you could have shortened that up to a couple paragraphs. Any more than that (which there was much more) made me wonder if this whole book would just be a huge filler. It was and it wasn’t.I loved to hear about Amy’s childhood, especially how her imagination would take her into fake dangerous situations, I could see her doing that now if her life was still boring and predictable. She described scenes fairly well so that we can truly grasp much of her growing up.I am happy she did not get into her personal life with her ex husband, I thought they were a fantastic couple and am sad they are no longer together but I don’t need to hear the nitty gritty.I loved the chapter from Seth, I thought that was very sweet. A huge filler but sweet.I did not mind the name dropping, she’s a celebrity, she sees awesome famous people on a weekly basis, of course she’s going to drop a few names here and there, it’s not like she used that as her main focus.I LOVED knowing her favorite moments on Parks and Rec, I went back and rewatched those eps and I could feel she enjoyed those scenes!!I just wish there were more funny stories, she told plenty of stories but most of them fell short, I only chuckled out loud a couple times through out the book. How can I laugh out loud to a Fred Stoller book but not an Amy Poehler?All in all, I think this is a great read if you are a huge Amy Poehler fan, when you read this you’ll definitely read it in her voice (hopefully) If you are looking for a hysterical book and aren’t super into knowing the in’s and out’s of Amy’s life than you should probably pass.
Gabby M –
Meh, I Guess?
This book unfortunately reinforces my already settled mindset: I just don’t care for comedian memoir-essay books. I’ll admit that I’ve always thought of author Amy Poehler as the less funny part of Tina ‘n Amy, but once I started watching Parks & Recreation, I got a lot fonder of Amy. Her Leslie Knope is the first time I’ve watched a character onscreen and felt like I was seeing someone like me up there. Not physically, the only thing Amy/Leslie and I share there is being short. But the optimism, the determination, the gravitation towards politics…she’s a great character and one that’s honestly been kind of a role model to me.So I really wish that I could tell you that Yes Please is an amazing book filled with wit and wisdom that you should rush out and acquire a copy of it right now. But that wouldn’t be right, because it’s actually an enjoyable enough but pretty standard-issue famous-funny-person-writes-a-bunch-of-essays-about-their-life-and-how-they-got-where-they-are. Amy recounts a very prosaic childhood outside of Boston in solidly middle-class comfort, where she made up stories to add drama to her life. She talks about her time in comedy, starting in Chicago and meeting Tina Fey (their friendship is not especially highlighted, she actually ends up talking more about her bond with Seth Meyers), working on Saturday Night Live, and some of her triumphs and missteps along the way. She talks about Parks & Rec (the book was written between the sixth and seventh/final season of the show) and how much she loves being a part of it. She doesn’t talk much about her then-fresh divorce from Will Arnett, but she does talk about being pregnant and becoming a mother at length. Which makes sense, she has two small boys and clearly loves them like crazy. Basically, she just talks about her life.It’s written with warmth and an enjoyably humorous tone, but none of it is especially fresh or revelatory. Part of me wants to believe that you can write a compelling memoir of a more-or-less normalish life without having to relate giant obstacles you’ve managed to overcome or outrageous things you’ve gotten up to in your youth, but the available evidence that I’ve come across suggests otherwise. Amy Poehler has obviously achieved tremendous success, but the way she describes her days of being young and dead broke focus so little on that and so much on the sheer enjoyment she got out of building her comedy career that it hardly seems like she struggled much on her way up the ladder. Which is great, on the one hand. She doesn’t try to engineer specious complications, she never pretends that she didn’t party and have fun while she was also working her tail off, and it was clearly hard work that led her to the opportunities that she’s taken and run with and that have paid off so well for her. But on the other hand, her completely understandable refusal to really get into what seems like her most challenging experience (her divorce) makes it so the book has no dramatic tension. Fundamentally decent person works hard and capitalizes on opportunities she was fortunate enough to have access to and prospers is just not a story that really goes anywhere, interest-wise. If you’re a Poehler superfan, you’ll love it, but it didn’t do much of anything for me.
If you’re an Amy Poehler fan, this book is a real treat! I became a fan through binge-watching Parks & Rec in lockdown with my partner, and was so happy to discover her as an actress, comedian and writer afterwards.Her stories have a bit of everything: tragedy, comedy, warmth, fun and emotion. Loved it!
Amazon Customer –
Loved it. It was insightful, relatable to real life. At some part you might feel bored if you are not familiar with her works but mostly it was good ,philosophical and helpful.
Clara Deboosere –
Livre très drôle je le recommande à tout les monde
Bianca –
Mi sono trovata molto bene per totale, il libro è nuovo tra l’altro è un libro bellissimo che consiglio a tutte e tutti voi! Arrivato nella tempistica suggerita ovviamente è durata un pò ma giustificato tutto.
Juan C. Velandia –
I had no idea how much I needed Poehler in my life!
I have always liked Amy Poehler. After this book, I LOVE HER! Such rawness and honesty is refreshing, that’s the kind of people I like and she’s exactly like that in this, her first (And hopefully not last) book. Her life story is not very different from the rest, and she knows it. So she makes fun of it and tells her own stories with lots of wit and acid humor… And in her audiobook, she even has special guests to have fun with! Kathleen Turner as her the dark voice in her head is hilarious, Patrick Stewart reading Plastic Surgery Haiku is to die for… And the rest are SO great!!!Her style is not unique, it’s very SNL / improv influenced, and it’s more than obvious, that’s where she worked and absolutely nailed it as Hillary Clinton. Poehler is pretty much a middle-class girl from a standard home she could be anyone of us, but she’s an absolute QUEEN of comedy, one of the best children that SNL gave to the world, along with her whole generation (Tina Fey, Rachel Dracht, Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers, and so many more).She sounds familiar but unique at the same time, she’s one of a kind when she laughs and cracks jokes, and punches you right in the heart when talking about her trip to Haiti and her beautiful children. This is not a random writing of silly stories, this is well thought out book filled with inspiring memories, difficult times, lots of reality and straight messages to the reader. There’s no subtext here, only a straightforward Poehler doing what she does best and laughing her way through it..And what a run she has!This is not just a book to laugh with, is the story of a life… And what a life she had! I’m sure she can fill up ten books with just stand-up and improve anecdotes (which I’d love to hear), but this debut as a book writer is everything I didn’t know I needed in my life.And please, don’t miss the audiobook, it’s absolutely hilarious!!!
Jessie Family –
Amy Poehler fans will enjoy
I was bothered at the very beginning when Amy took WAY TOO LONG trying to convey how ‘hard’ it is to write a book, we get it Amy, it’s tough, but you could have shortened that up to a couple paragraphs. Any more than that (which there was much more) made me wonder if this whole book would just be a huge filler. It was and it wasn’t.I loved to hear about Amy’s childhood, especially how her imagination would take her into fake dangerous situations, I could see her doing that now if her life was still boring and predictable. She described scenes fairly well so that we can truly grasp much of her growing up.I am happy she did not get into her personal life with her ex husband, I thought they were a fantastic couple and am sad they are no longer together but I don’t need to hear the nitty gritty.I loved the chapter from Seth, I thought that was very sweet. A huge filler but sweet.I did not mind the name dropping, she’s a celebrity, she sees awesome famous people on a weekly basis, of course she’s going to drop a few names here and there, it’s not like she used that as her main focus.I LOVED knowing her favorite moments on Parks and Rec, I went back and rewatched those eps and I could feel she enjoyed those scenes!!I just wish there were more funny stories, she told plenty of stories but most of them fell short, I only chuckled out loud a couple times through out the book. How can I laugh out loud to a Fred Stoller book but not an Amy Poehler?All in all, I think this is a great read if you are a huge Amy Poehler fan, when you read this you’ll definitely read it in her voice (hopefully) If you are looking for a hysterical book and aren’t super into knowing the in’s and out’s of Amy’s life than you should probably pass.
Gabby M –
Meh, I Guess?
This book unfortunately reinforces my already settled mindset: I just don’t care for comedian memoir-essay books. I’ll admit that I’ve always thought of author Amy Poehler as the less funny part of Tina ‘n Amy, but once I started watching Parks & Recreation, I got a lot fonder of Amy. Her Leslie Knope is the first time I’ve watched a character onscreen and felt like I was seeing someone like me up there. Not physically, the only thing Amy/Leslie and I share there is being short. But the optimism, the determination, the gravitation towards politics…she’s a great character and one that’s honestly been kind of a role model to me.So I really wish that I could tell you that Yes Please is an amazing book filled with wit and wisdom that you should rush out and acquire a copy of it right now. But that wouldn’t be right, because it’s actually an enjoyable enough but pretty standard-issue famous-funny-person-writes-a-bunch-of-essays-about-their-life-and-how-they-got-where-they-are. Amy recounts a very prosaic childhood outside of Boston in solidly middle-class comfort, where she made up stories to add drama to her life. She talks about her time in comedy, starting in Chicago and meeting Tina Fey (their friendship is not especially highlighted, she actually ends up talking more about her bond with Seth Meyers), working on Saturday Night Live, and some of her triumphs and missteps along the way. She talks about Parks & Rec (the book was written between the sixth and seventh/final season of the show) and how much she loves being a part of it. She doesn’t talk much about her then-fresh divorce from Will Arnett, but she does talk about being pregnant and becoming a mother at length. Which makes sense, she has two small boys and clearly loves them like crazy. Basically, she just talks about her life.It’s written with warmth and an enjoyably humorous tone, but none of it is especially fresh or revelatory. Part of me wants to believe that you can write a compelling memoir of a more-or-less normalish life without having to relate giant obstacles you’ve managed to overcome or outrageous things you’ve gotten up to in your youth, but the available evidence that I’ve come across suggests otherwise. Amy Poehler has obviously achieved tremendous success, but the way she describes her days of being young and dead broke focus so little on that and so much on the sheer enjoyment she got out of building her comedy career that it hardly seems like she struggled much on her way up the ladder. Which is great, on the one hand. She doesn’t try to engineer specious complications, she never pretends that she didn’t party and have fun while she was also working her tail off, and it was clearly hard work that led her to the opportunities that she’s taken and run with and that have paid off so well for her. But on the other hand, her completely understandable refusal to really get into what seems like her most challenging experience (her divorce) makes it so the book has no dramatic tension. Fundamentally decent person works hard and capitalizes on opportunities she was fortunate enough to have access to and prospers is just not a story that really goes anywhere, interest-wise. If you’re a Poehler superfan, you’ll love it, but it didn’t do much of anything for me.
Fernanda C. –
Perfeitooo!! Já era fascinada pela comédia da Amy e esse livro só me deixou ainda mais encantada por ela. A leitura é muito gostosa, me prendeu do inÃcio ao fim! Gostei demais.
Alexzya –
If you’re an Amy Poehler fan, this book is a real treat! I became a fan through binge-watching Parks & Rec in lockdown with my partner, and was so happy to discover her as an actress, comedian and writer afterwards.Her stories have a bit of everything: tragedy, comedy, warmth, fun and emotion. Loved it!
Amazon Customer –
Loved it. It was insightful, relatable to real life. At some part you might feel bored if you are not familiar with her works but mostly it was good ,philosophical and helpful.
Clara Deboosere –
Livre très drôle je le recommande à tout les monde
Bianca –
Mi sono trovata molto bene per totale, il libro è nuovo tra l’altro è un libro bellissimo che consiglio a tutte e tutti voi! Arrivato nella tempistica suggerita ovviamente è durata un pò ma giustificato tutto.