Yes, Please
By Amy Poehler
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Non-fiction
Genre: memoir
Read on 2019-01-08
View additional specs on this book in Muhan’s 2019 Reading Survey ➞
★★★★☆
I already loved Amy Poehler but now I LOVE AMY POEHLER. I love that this book captures everything a woman in comedy can be, everything a woman can be. I appreciate kind people who are happy and humble and love and appreciate their friends and colleagues. There’s so much joy in this book and like, self-awareness and reflection, and I feel like I’m seeing into the life of a woman who has lived so much more of her life than I have (at 22), and understanding more of the parts that go into a life and career.
I also listened to this as an audiobook because I very rightly assumed it would be fantastic. It was, and there were some fab guest stars and special medium-specific things they did for this audiobook that are just clever and fun and enriched the experience. I also definitely YouTubed bunch of the awards show stories Poehler writes about afterward and they really are as hilarious as she says they are.
★★★★★ It’s 2019 and I honestly forget sometimes that Mindy Kaling was one of the people who literally created The Office.