When you give good presents, you get good ones in return.

Aziz Ansari gave her an autographed photo of Omar from The Wire for Mother’s Day. She gave Fey a dog tag that reads, “Pleasant Tomorrow,” and got the tag back when she was going through a tough time. She gave Meyers a badge of courage, like the Lion’s in The Wizard of Oz, when she left him to host “Weekend Update” on his own. Much of the book feels like a dose of Poehler’s big-sister wisdom sent directly to your brain, whether explicitly (as in the colorful two-page spreads that shout sentences like, “Like who likes you,” and, “Nothing is anyone’s business”) or through stories about her life and work on * S.N.L.* In addition to that indispensible sex advice, here are five more life lessons we learned from Yes Please. It’s also utterly unlike the voice that seems to be the real Poehler in Yes Please, which is what makes it so funny the line of advice before “keep walking” is the fully sincere, “Open up and try new things with someone you love.” Amy Poehler’s sex advice-which also includes, “Get better at dirty talk,” and, “We don’t want to remember your penis”-is far from the only thing in Yes Please that will improve your life, though. It’s the brassy, take-no-prisoners voice you don’t expect to come from the short blond lady with the wide-open face it’s the voice that says of Tina Fey, “We host ALL the shit and RUN THIS TOWN cuz we COME CORRECT,” and probably the same voice that rapped in front of Sarah Palin on “Weekend Update” in 2008. That line-the kicker to a chapter titled “My World-Famous Sex Advice”-is said in the voice of a comedic persona that Amy Poehler deploys sparingly but effectively in her book Yes Please.

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