That said, I think most people will find plenty to relate to in the pages of Yes Please. While I have never been an improv comic, a national TV and movie star, a mom, or a bestselling writer, I am intimately acquainted with growing up in suburbia in the 1970s and, more recently, navigating the 21st century and adulthood with varying degrees of bemusement and accomplishment. It’s true that she and I are contemporaries (full disclosure: I’m 3.5 years older). As insightful and (sometimes painfully) honest as it is funny, to me her book is sort of a humorous manual for living. But I didn’t necessarily expect to find so much value in it. Poehler’s (Amy’s? I’m going to call her Amy what the heck) acting and her interviews, so I was probably inclined to like her book, as well. I loved Amy Poehler’s memoir, Yes Please.
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