![]() ![]() It follows on the heels of Tina Fey’s very funny and successful Bossypants, Mindy Kaling’s hilarious Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), and, more recently, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl. The expectations heaped on Poehler’s first book, Yes Please, are many. ![]() However, producers, writers, and audience members often don’t expect she’ll go too far, but rather that she’ll go just far enough - such as when she sat on George Clooney’s lap during the Golden Globes - and when she does take that leap, it’s funny because she isn’t worried about looking silly. People expect her to be Leslie Knope, a maniacally laughing version of Hillary Clinton, or Tina Fey. We do it at home when we say, “Maybe we should get takeout tonight,” and at work when we suggest, “Let’s push that meeting to tomorrow.” We even do it with our friends on shopping excursions: “The sizes tend to run small here let me grab you another pair.”Ĭomedian Amy Poehler knows firsthand about managing expectations because she’s constantly defying them: People don’t expect her to be all that funny because she’s a woman (and if you don’t think women are as funny as - or, in many cases, funnier than - men, we should just agree to part ways now). ![]()
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