10 Things We Discovered From Amy Poehler’s Brand New Memoir
Intercourse! Drugs! Legislation & Purchase! Today yes Please by Amy Poehler hits shelves
Have actually you grabbed your copy of Yes Kindly yet? The much-anticipated memoir from Golden Globe–winning celebrity and funnywoman Amy Poehler is going now (HarperCollins Canada, $33). We consumed it like Leslie Knope would a bowl of waffles; listed here are 10 things we learned all about certainly one of
favourite comedians. (BTW, Toronto: she’s bringing her guide trip to Indigo on Bay & Bloor this Thursday—where she’ll be interviewed by Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany!)
1. She constantly understood she will be on SNL.
On a college day at NYC, Poehler’s ninth-grade course took the SNL studio tour during the Rockefeller Centre, where she squeezed her nose resistant to the cup and viewed the cast practice. “I believed that someday in the foreseeable future, I would personally be rehearsing onstage at Saturday Night Live while a bunch of sophomore women could be waving if you ask me,” she says. “All of these putting on cooler clothes than my class mates and I also wore that day”
2. She’s got knowledge that is carnal of Crazy Ira as well as the Douche.
The Parks and Recreation celebrity has actually dated both Matt Besser and Nick Kroll, a.k.a. Crazy Ira while the Douche: Pawnee’s “most hilarious drive-time radio guys” (complimentary mammogram, anybody?). She’s held it’s place in a commitment with Kroll since 2013, and she went with Besser in the’90s that are early after using an improv course he taught in Chicago.
3. She’s done drugs and driven intoxicated. (more…)