![]() ![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play There's too much blue language in her hilarious tirade to quote it here, so let's just say it involves a high-speed chase: "All of my lower-middle-class Boston issues rose to the surface." ("It was…the only sketch I regret from SNL," she writes.) She also memorably describes her tornado-like temper tantrums, one of which occurred on a first-class flight with Ana Gasteyer and Tina Fey. She especially rues enraging actor Chris Cooper and his wife, Marianne, with an insensitive skit spoofing a developmentally disabled child, and taking five years to apologize. Poehler, 43, retraces her wonderfully normal childhood in suburban Massachusetts from her birth (her sweet teacher-mom contributes this passage) to her falling in love with improv as Dorothy in an elementary school production of The Wizard of Oz to a summer job scooping ice cream.īut don't take Poehler for a blonde with no bite she shares plenty of tales of mischief, mayhem, and even remorse. ![]() ![]() In fact, the Saturday Night Live veteran and Parks and Recreation star's career forecast reads as mostly sunny with a high chance of silly (two sample chapter titles: "Humping Justin Timberlake" and "Obligatory Drug Stories, or Lessons I Learned on Mushrooms"). The path of comedic genius doesn't have to be dark and stormy, as Amy Poehler demonstrates in her bristlingly intelligent, guffaw-out-loud memoir, Yes Please (Dey Street). ![]()
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