Yes Please
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Globe and Mail Bestseller
A Globe Best Book of the Year
A smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read from one of our most beloved funny folk.
In a perfect world . . .
We'd get to hang out with Amy Poehler, watching dumb movies, listening to music, and swapping tales about our coworkers and difficult childhoods. Unfortunately, between her Golden Globe-winning role on Parks and Recreation, work as a producer and director, place as one of the most beloved SNL alumni and cofounder of the Upright Citizens Brigade, involvement with the website Smart Girls at the Party, frequent turns as acting double for Meryl Streep, and her other gig as the mom of two young sons, she's not available for movie night. Luckily, we have the next best thing: Yes Please, Amy Poehler's hilarious and candid book.
A collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haiku, Yes Please took the world by storm, going straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and dominating lists on both sides of the border for over 17 weeks--including multiple weeks at #1 on the Globe and Mail bestseller list. Widely acclaimed as one of the best books of the year, Yes Please cemented Amy Poehler's place in our hearts as one of our most beloved entertainers, and in our minds as a sharp, insightful, and provocative writer. Oh, and did we mention hilarious? Truly hilarious.
Yes Please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Honest, personal, real, and righteous, Yes Please is full of words to live by.
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Reviews
"Funny, wise, earnest, spiritually ambitious." --Los Angeles Times
"Pure charm." --People
"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." --The New Yorker
"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 the book, 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
"Yes Please is its own hilarious, intelligent, vulnerable and wild ride of a read." --Chicago Tribune
"Demonstrates the skill of this excellent comic actress, a funny woman who roots hilarity in specifics." --The Washington Post
"Required reading for all young women." --The Huffington Post
"[Yes Please] is honest words of wisdom within a joyous story structure." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"[A] bristlingly intelligent, guffaw-out-loud memoir. . . . 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
"It's pretty perfect that Amy Poehler named her first book Yes Please, because that's exactly what we said when we heard Poehler was finally writing a book. . . . Poehler is a natural-born comedy writer, and it shows." --Refinery29
"You'd have to be a humorless misanthrope with a heart of stone to dislike Amy Poehler. She's hilarious, relatable, talented as hell. . . . She's a total badass." --Bustle
"Insightful, surprisingly poignant, and yes, laugh-out-loud-in-public-like-a-crazy-person funny." --Allure
"As bewitching and chameleonlike as Poehler herself." --Publishers Weekly
"Amy Poehler shines bright in her new memoir. . . . Yes Please . . . is honest and revealing in a particular and important way. . . . It's also very funny, but we knew that going in." --The Globe and Mail
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