Yes Please (Mass Market)
By Amy Poehler
Kobo eBook (October 28th, 2014): $10.99
Paperback (September 2015): $16.99
I was ecstatic when I heard Amy Poehler was writing a book. She is a good writer, great actor, and hilarious comedian. Yes Please is a cross between Tina Fey's Bossypants and Bob Saget's Dirty Daddy but in a style all Amy's own. Her stories of growing up in suburbia will sound comfortably familiar to many of us. And you will find yourself rooting for her as she makes way through the Chicago and NY improv and comedy scene. Poehler gives us an inside look at the ups and downs of becoming a TV celebrity. It is reassuring to know that it is possible to have success in the entertainment industry and still be a "normal" person.
— Justin, Atlanta
Do you ever wish your life was just a little bit more dangerous?
Do you look in the mirror and think mean thoughts about your face?
Do you want to know more about the day you were born?
Do you think you would make a terrific ninety-year-old?
Do you have a ridiculous, obsessive, and ultimately unsatisfying relationship with your phone and are you missing that phone right now as you read this?
Do you believe in time travel?
Do you want to hear advice about treating your career like a bad boyfriend?
Do you like to look at the moon and think about how small we are in this big universe?
Do you want to find the thing you love most and go for it no matter what?
Do you need world-famous sex tips that cannot be disputed and would hold up in a sex court of law?
GREAT NEWS. AMY POEHLER IS HERE FOR YOU.
Yes Please is her collection of ideas, stories, and questions about the stuff of life, big and small, funny and sad. Now, Yes Please can be yours.
Amy Poehler is a writer, actress, producer, and director who is known for her years on Saturday Night Live, her starring role as Leslie Knope on the beloved series Parks and Recreation, as the voice of Joy in Pixar's Inside Out, and for being third runner-up for Most Casual in her high-school yearbook. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her two boys. She hopes this book will get her invited for lunch on a fancy yacht with her hero Judge Judy. She is dressed and ready.
"Yes Please is a great story…because it is self-damning and hopeful at the same time."
— Los Angeles Times
"Pure charm"
— People
"Poehler is very funny, so the jokes are very good…Poehler is very wise, so her advice is on point."
— Slate
"Delightful...Poehler is frank and funny throughout [Yes Please], as is her nature, but her writing unearths a wise narrator who's seen some of the worst of life and come out the other side unscathed…Can we get more from Amy Poehler? Yes, seriously, please."
— Newsweek
"Demonstrates the skill of this excellent comic actress, a funny woman who roots hilarity in specifics."
— Washington Post
"Required reading for all young women."
"[Yes Please] is honest words of wisdom within a joyous story structure."
— Philadelphia Inquirer
"Yes Please veers between reminiscing and philosophizing. Poehler had developed some principles over the years and shares them in usually funny fashion."
— Chicago Sun-Times
"Yes Please isn't a scan of the comedic brain so much as it is something far better---the full exposure of Poehler's funny and very magnanimous heart.
— Elle
"Yes Please delivers what it should: life lessons and vicarious thrills…the book is largely a portrait of confidence. Reading it, some of it rubs off on us."
— New Yorker
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Humor / Form / Essays
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Prebound (September 2015): $32.93
Pre-Recorded Audio Player (October 28th, 2014): $121.54