Books like yes please and bossypants

In her first book, one of our most beloved funny folk delivers a smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read. In amy poehlers highly anticipated first book, yes please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice some use offred is a handmaid in the republic of gilead. My subconscious and lets be honest here, also my conscious mind just wanted to listen to a book about liz lemon being liz lemon. Tina feys book reads like a quick succession of sketch comedies, some funnier than others. Find books like yes please from the worlds largest community of readers. Looking for more writers like david sedaris or sloane. Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything.

If feys bossypants or kalings is everyone hanging out without me. Tina feys book discusses similar topics to poehlers but in completely different ways. If you loved yes please, then try reading these 9 books after youre done. Saying that, it showcases her journey so far, featuring her trademark acid wit, and explores how it came about.

Honest, personal, real, and righteous, yes please is full of words to live by. Find books like bossypants from the worlds largest community of readers. Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love amy, yes please is a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry plastic surgery haiku, to be specific, photographs, mantras and advice. If you like bossypants you might like similar books is everyone hanging out without me. With chapters like treat your career like a bad boyfriend, plain girl versus the demon and the robots will kill us all yes please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Fey writes, after dropping the names of a few comedy allstars, but my editor told me that was a cheap way to flesh out the book. I thought it would be interesting to compare the two since the comedians are such great friends and perform well together. The guest list is starstudded with vocal appearances from carol burnett, seth meyers, michael schur, patrick stewart, kathleen turner, and even amys parents yes please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza. In amy poehlers highly anticipated first book, yes please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice some useful, some not so much, like when to be funny and when to be serious. Both books are musthaves, but bossypants has collected dust on my bookshelf at home while yes please came with me to college. Like an episode of snl, tina feys book reads like a quick succession of sketch comedies, some funnier than others. Poehler is frank and funny throughout yes please, as is her nature. Bossypants book san antonio public library bibliocommons.

And after the easyreading of bossypants, i felt warmed up and ready for amy poehlers yes please. Spirited and whipsmart, these laughoutloud autobiographical essays are a masterpiece from the emmy awardwinning ac. And i need not have worried about all the pagesmy little brain was able to handle it all. Before liz lemon, before weekend update, before sarah palin, tina fey was just a young girl with a dream. If youre not a fan, youll probably find it funny anyway, but i do think books like these are mainly for the fans. Amy poehlers book yes please will give you all the life. I was hesitant to start listening to bossypants because, like seemingly every other person on this planet, liz lemon is one of my favorite television characters of all time. Yes please is a memoir in that it contains some memories, many of which are offered as hardwon advice seems too preachy, so well go with helpful suggestions. Amy poehlers memoirish book is titled yes please, as in bring it on. Poehler, 42, calls yes please a missive from the middle of my life, an attempt to describe what its like to feel young and old at the same time. Ive always admired her friendship with tina fey and as a result, had a nice soft spot for ms. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on saturday night live. Tina fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. Tiny fey the self deprecating bossypants in the book of the same name, has managed to write an autobiography that reads more like a comedic movie script than a novel about her life the book is slightly dated now as her show 30 rock is no more.

I feel pathetic saying this but i never really watched saturday night live when i was younger or now. Amy poehler isnt scared of being unlikable for a woman with one the most likable personas in hollywood, its refreshing how little she tries to charm us. But come to a book like yes please with the desires and expectations of a reader, and youre almost certain to walk away disappointed. The basis of the book is her outlook on life as a bossypants,but really its as much of an autobiography as any other autobiography out there. Tina fey talks bossypants and other books, zings talese. Powered by amys charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, yes please is a book full of words to live. In her newly released memoir, yes please, amy poehler refers to tina fey as her comedy wife. If you loved yes please, then try reading these 9 books. I recently read tina feys memoir, bossypants, and amy poehlers memoir, yes, please, back to back. Bossypants, being a hilarious, feminist autobiography, has been compared and related to a few other texts by women from similar backgrounds. Equal parts memoir and selfhelp as poehler puts it, she engages in some light emotional sharing i finished yes please feeling that i knew who poehler was a little better, and convinced that under different circumstances we would be great friends. I actually read this book in just a couple of days, too. As wives of this nature, fey and poehler both have distinctly different comedic voices that have always complemented each other standing sidebyside.

Looking for more writers like david sedaris or sloane crosley. Reading yes please is not like hacking away at a freezer. With her book bossypants fey adds another quiver to her bow of talent. Please, book 1 please, baby, please classic board books please dont tell my. Because amy poehler is just like us except when shes not. Yes please is a great storybecause it is selfdamning and hopeful at the same time.

Of course, amy poehlers ye s please is very similar, since both poehler and fey share the same connection on gaining their fame through saturday night live. A chapter called im so proud of you should be required reading in high schools. If you like yes please you might like similar books is everyone hanging out without me. Audie award, humor, 2015 amy poehler is hosting a dinner party and youre invited. Tina feys new book bossypants is short, messy, and impossibly funny. I think we mentioned once or twice that were excited about amy poehlers new book, yes please.