Acknowledgments
First thanks go to my wonderful parents, Bill and Eileen Poehler. Thank you for contributing to Yes Please, and thank you for loving and supporting me. You always clapped for me when I roller-skated in our driveway. This book is all your fault.
Thanks to Carrie Thornton and Kate Cassaday, my badass editors. Your positive reinforcement and great ideas shaped this book. I’m sorry I constantly e-mailed you and told you I would never finish. It’s very unlike me.
Thank you to Erin Malone, Dave Becky, and Sharon Jackson for believing I could do this and also for making me do this.
Thanks to Will Arnett for our amazing boys, Archie and Abel, and for your many years of love and support.
Thank you to Michael Schur and Seth Meyers for writing stuff for me. I know how busy you both are.
Thank you to Nick Kroll, who encourages me in all the right ways.
Thanks to my first friend, my brother, Greg Poehler, and his beautiful family. Thanks to Lewis Kay, Jeff Wolman, Warren Dern, Kate Arend, Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kelly Leonard, Rashida Jones, Aubrey Plaza, Keri Downey, Amy Miles, Rachel Dratch, Louis CK, Emily Spivey, Kristin (Umile) Haggerty, Andrea (Mahoney) Thomas, Susan Hale, Alex Sidtis, Kathy Dalton, Lorne Michaels, Mike Shoemaker, Kemal Harris, Karla Welch, Chad Strahan, Robert Moulton, Kelly Campbell, Jeff Clampitt, Mary Elllen Matthews, Liezl Estipona, Anna Tendler, Kirston Mann, Tina Fey, and Lesley Arfin for the title. Special thanks to Meredith Walker, who is always on my side and likes to remind me I am from Boston and we finish our shit.
Thanks to Dr. Jane Aronson, Wendy Bovard, Melissa Willock, and everyone at Worldwide Orphans.
Thanks to Mercy Caballero, Dawa Chodon, and Jackie Johnson for taking such good care of my children.
Thanks to Anastasia Somoza, Spike Jones, Marianne Leone, and Chris Cooper for letting me tell our story.
Thanks to the writers, cast, and crew of Parks and Recreation. Especially Morgan Sackett.
Thank you to the UCB theater community, and Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and Matt Besser. Special thanks to Besser, who sent me old flyers and remembered everything.
Finally, thank you, Dolly Parton. Just because.
About the Author
AMY POEHLER is a writer, actress, producer, and director. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her two boys. She hopes this book will get her invited onto her hero Judge Judy’s yacht, Triumphant Lady.
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