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. 'The real Elisabeth Moss came in to play herself, and she met Fred Armisen, who one year later to the day would become her husband,' Poehlerwrites.ģ. AfterPoehler texted the cast and crew to say she'd be MIA for that night's episode, Seth Meyersprepared to do 'Weekend Update' alone for the first time - and producers scrambled to find people to stand in for Poehler. With Jon Hamm hosting, the cast had planned a Mad Men sketch as part of the night's lineup. Did she inadvertently set Fred Armisen and Elisabeth Moss up? Poehler went into labor with her first son, Archie, hours before she was supposed to be on SNL. How does she overcome writers block? Poehler says one of the lessons she learned while penning Yes Please was that 'writing topless tends to relax me.'Ģ. Here are the most interesting tidbits we learned about the comedienne:ġ. 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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