Amy advocates for a disengaged style of workplace conflict resolution that she says was inspired by watching how pathologically laid-back Christopher Walken is. It's not pro-drug but the takeaway 'drugs suck drugs help drugs are fun' is real talk.ģ. By contrast, Amy's book includes a cheerful breakdown of every major drug, if and when she's tried them, and whether she's liked them. Typically, if a celebrity memoir mentions drugs, it's to apologize for youthful indiscretions or to tell a story about hard-won sobriety. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĢ. Is it something she's going to apologize for? Hell no. It's profoundly refreshing to hear a woman talk about crying like it's no big deal. Amy owns it - she talks about crying a lot during her time at SNL, both from stress and fatigue, and from the constant cycle of pitching and writing sketches that were later rejected. Women are often shamed for crying in the workplace (and in their personal lives too, but only the real jerks shame women for that). Some of these are obvious and upfront (many of them are literally printed on brightly colored pages in 72-pt font), but here are 10 of the book's smaller, more surprising lessons and revelations.ġ. It's not a self-help book, but there's plenty of advice folded in alongside childhood memories, stories about coming up in the Chicago improv scene, and behind-the-scenes gossip from Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation. (Not recommended, for safety purposes.)īut you might be surprised by some of the more unconventional lessons Yes Please delivers. So great it's entirely possible you'll find yourself literally reading it and walking across a freeway overpass at the same time because you're so desperate to keep tearing through it. (Even though romantic relationships are actually really important in people's lives and mainstream media portrays this subject as trivial or lesser.) But I digress.Here's what won't surprise you about Amy Poehler's new book Yes Please: It's great. It's interesting to me that there's an assumption that a lady-penned book will focus on romantic relationships, even when the reality is something else. But I guess because he's a dude it's 'profound' (disclosure: I hate the public's clamoring over every single one of that man's pithy, simplistic rants). talks much more about his relationships in his everyday comedy bits than Amy does in Yes Please. I'm certain that Kroll isn't mentioned by name outside the acknowledgments and the limited about of time spent on Arnett is mostly in a general sense about how much divorce sucks and graciously about him as a father to their two sons. It's interesting to me that some major media reviews lingered on the notion that Amy talks 'a lot' about her divorce from Will Arnett and her new relationship with comedian Nick Kroll.

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