![]() ![]() ![]() Starting from the 1950s, a quick lineage of women in comedy might include Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner, Whoopi Goldberg and 1990s stand-ups-turned-sitcom-stars such as Roseanne Barr, Brett Butler and Margaret Cho. “Stop planning and just go.”Īs Poehler’s multitasking did not leave time for her to give her book a cultural context, let’s offer one (as Seth Meyers, who contributes a short chapter, says, “so that Amy can take a break”). As improv’s godfather Del Close used to say: “Don’t think.” “Get out of your head,” Poehler writes. ![]() Even when Poehler does sleep, she wakes herself up 20 to 30 times a night (according to a Beverly Hills sleep clinic) and, apparently, snores “like a dragon.” She freely allows that “Yes Please” is a “spontaneous overflow in the middle of chaos, not tranquillity,” a thing written on subways and planes, “ugly and in pieces.” And in the end, no apologies. It helps that Poehler is upfront about her exhaustion, given that she is a 43-year-old sitcom star who shoots 12 hours of television a day while mothering two children under 7. Amy Poehler admits she wrote her new memoir while sleep-deprived. ![]()
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