Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Good for her, not for me.”

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

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In five words: Memoir, Frank, Wisdom, Femalehood, Funny This is my fifth time reading this book and I know it won’t be the last. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are two women I admire for their humor. I had the opportunity to see their live show and it was everything I had ever hoped for, seeing these funny women in person, in their element as friends having spent their adult lives sharing a comedy stage, first at Second City and later on Saturday Night Live. […]

CBRBingo – Summer Read. More Poehler, please.

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

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CBRBingo – Summer Read Reread July 2019 (third review). As I again turn to Amy Poehler in the summer (last time, was summer 2016) I would definitely call this the quintessential summer read. Great on the beach, fun and funny, Poehler is a rollicking good time. Aside from George Orwell’s 1984 and my annual Christopher Reading of “The Stupidest Angel” this is the only other book I have reread since I was a kid. It is equal parts memoir and self-help and Poehler is a […]

Girl Walks into a Bar…

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I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants pre-Cannonballread and Amy Poheler’s Yes, Please last year, both women mention Rachel Dratch in their memoirs because they were friendly in Chicago and on SNL at the same time. For the last few years Girl Walks into a Bar… has been on my recommendations lists from Barnes & Nobel, Amazon and Goodreads- so it was time to give Ms. Dratch a spin. Girl is different than her colleagues’ memoirs because SNL wasn’t the stepping stone for her career, it was […]

The millionth review of this book (which is wonderful).

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I think it’s probably impossible to read Amy Poehler’s book without comparing it, subconsciously at the very least, with Tina Fey’s Bossypants (and possibly Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?). Bossypants was certainly on my mind, not just because when I think of Amy Poehler, Tina Fey isn’t far behind (and vice versa), but also because both women (and Mindy Kaling) are associated in my mind with being funny on Thursday night NBC sitcoms. They’ve also all three got that ethos about them. The […]

Not trying so hard, not planning ahead, just getting out of your own head and letting the magic happen.

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Rachel Dratch is not someone who I would normally go running out to buy or read their memoir. I know her from her time on SNL, which coincided with the time in my life that I initially started watching the show live. But, she wasn’t someone I followed, and I didn’t watch 30 Rock, so I was largely unaware of the media firestorm surrounding her replacement by Jane Krakowski. But after having read Tina Fey and Darrel Hammond’s biographies for previous Cannonball Reads and seeing […]

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Too

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This review will be woefully inept as I finished this book over a month ago.  I remember really liking it but I was surprised I gave it four stars rather than five.   This is Tina Fey’s autobiography and the audiobook is narrated by Tina.  If I read this book without any context I could still identify it as her work.  Maybe that is because I loved 30 Rock but in any event this book is thoroughly Tina.  In the book she discusses more of […]



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