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The Book Pile

Yes Please, by Amy Poehler

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

SUMMARY: Dave and Kellen take another dive into the great Amy Poehler's (SNL, Baby Momma, Parks and Recreation) memoir. Also Dave is terrible at comforting people and Kellen rants about actors' award speeches. KELLEN ERSKINE IS IN PROVO & SALT LAKE CITY THIS WEEK! Nov 7th (Provo) then 8-9 (SLC) go to KellenErskine.com for tickets -Get two free tickets to any of Kellen's live shows in 2024-2025 by joining The Book Pile's Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/TheBookPile -If you want to re...

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0:00.0

So I'm going to name a Parks and Rec character.

0:03.4

You tell me why they were on the Capitol steps on January 6th.

0:09.8

Leslie Noep.

0:13.0

Leslie was there because she thought that it was a group of people just in line to get autographs.

0:20.7

From Biden.

0:24.2

April Ludgate.

0:26.5

I mean, April is apolitical.

0:29.4

She was just there because she also owns several hats with horns on them for sure.

0:39.4

Hey, everyone. So here's a joke about Amy Poler, told from the perspective of George

0:45.0

Gallup, father of the Gallup poll. Okay, so picture George Gallup. Polar, I hardly know her,

0:53.1

but I will once my poll captures her preferences and demographics.

0:57.4

Again, that's George Gallup.

0:59.8

Today's book is Yes Please by Amy Polar.

1:02.9

And this is the book pile.

1:05.7

I enjoy telling puns because I can hear your optical nerve straining as your eyes shoot straight up.

1:14.1

I can hear it dislodging from your skull.

1:16.7

I just, it just seems like the most lazy way to write, like the easiest way to write a joke.

1:25.8

And I can prove that because popsicle stick companies don't hire comedy writers.

1:33.8

Like, they don't need to.

1:35.7

That's true.

1:37.0

I used to not use puns, but Umi loves puns.

1:40.0

And so I started using them because they make her laugh.

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