Yes Please

GRAMMY NOMINEE

Audie Award, Humor, 2015

Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy's parents - Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.

Also included? A one-night-only live performance at Poehler's Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Hear Amy read a chapter live in front of a young and attractive Los Angeles audience.

While listening to Yes Please, you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll become convinced that your phone is trying to kill you. Don't miss this collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers. Offering Amy's thoughts on everything from her "too safe" childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York City, her ideas about Hollywood and "the biz", the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has a "face for wigs" - Yes Please is chock-full of words, and wisdom, to live by.

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"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." - Huffington Post

"[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

FROM THE BACK COVER
Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central'sUpright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter onSaturday Night Live, and in movies likeBaby Mama,Blades of Glory, andThey Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope onParks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last twoGolden Globesceremonies, so you could bask in the hilarity of Amy's one-liners?

If your answer to these questions is "Yes Please!" then you are in luck. In her first book, one of our most beloved funny folk delivers a smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read. Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love Amy,Yes Pleaseis a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry (Plastic Surgery Haiku, to be specific) , photographs, mantras and advice. With chapters like "Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend," "Plain Girl Versus the Demon" and "The Robots Will Kill Us All"Yes Pleasewill make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Honest, personal, real, and righteous,Yes Pleaseis full of words to live by.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.

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