What's the only SNL sketch she regrets? In her tenure at Saturday Night Live, there's only one sketch that Poehler says she regretted doing - and it led to a five-year feud with Oscar winner Chris Cooper. It's signed 'Hillary Rodham Clinton* *otherwise known as your mother's double').ĥ. Who sent Archie his first birthday card? Poehler famously impersonated Hillary Clinton during the 2008 election - and in return, the future Secretary of State, took time out of her campaign schedule to send Poehler's newborn son Archie a happy birthday message in October 2008. It is, without exaggeration, one of my favorite sounds on earth.'Ĥ. Though to be fair, it was less a laugh and more of a cackle. When a cast member or writer had a piece bombing to such silence that you could almost hear their pores expelling sweat, you could always count on Amy to give them a laugh. He writes: 'In my time at SNL no one was quicker or more gracious with a laugh than Amy - never more so than at the weekly table read, when it was needed most. She encourages the underdogs: Fed up with the progress on Yes Please, Poehlerasked her 'Weekend Update' partner Seth Meyers to help her out and write a chapter. Here are the most interesting tidbits we learned about the comedienne:ģ.

Who are the best SNL cast members of all time?īut while there aren't any jaw-dropping revelations per se, Yes Please includes plenty of new information about Poehler that even die-hard fans probably didn't know. 'I also don't like people knowing my s-.' (Reports last week detailing the 'reveal' of her past drug use also really blew the details included in the book out of proportion.) 'I don't want to talk about my divorce because it is too sad and too personal,' she writes. While Poehler acknowledges Arnett in relation to their children, their separation is glossed over entirely.

Though it's a breeze of a read, anyone looking for salacious details about the SaturdayNight Livealum - particularly about her divorce from Will Arnett - will be disappointed. Fortunately, the final product is much easier to consume than it apparently was to produce. With a schedule that includes 12-hour days on her sitcom Parks and Recreation, as well as raising two boys under 6, Poehler makes no secret of what a tedious process it was to complete Yes Please. Amy Poehler devotes a substantial amount of ink in her new memoir Yes Please to telling readers that she 'had no business' writing a book in the first place.

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