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It involves Mello Yello soda and a truly inspired vision of a loving partnership. In his memoir-as-essays collection, Aasif Mandvi gives the best gag to his parents. It takes a confident comedian to set someone else up to deliver the best joke. Poehler discusses her waiting-tables-and-improv-in-the-wilderness years, and people should definitely want to hear it. “People don’t want to hear about your years of waiting tables,” Poehler writes, explaining that aspiring actors want a promise of instant success.īut that’s not true.

The book is more revealing and a bit more raw than books by famous people usually are. Luckily, Poehler produced a book that neatly packages a lot of what one might want to hear from her: honest thoughts on body image, divorce, ambition, sex, and why she gave Hill­ary Rodham Clinton that crazy laugh when she played her on “Saturday Night Live.” She doesn’t have time to be our best friend or even casual acquaintance, on call for when life demands sage advice. So, just in time for deadline shopping, here are five highlights of the comedy book - broadly defined as funny books by funny people - landscape in 2014.Īmy Poehler is a television star, writer and mother of two young children. It was, however, a perfect year for escape and catharsis through comedy. Looking back over the past year, one thing is clear: It’s not such a heartwarming one to revisit. Frantically expedite shipping this very day, and your loved ones won’t know that trinket was a deadline purchase.

1 that there are two entire shopping days left before Christmas Eve. Here we are though, close enough to the dawning of a new year that one’s mind naturally turns to summing it up, yet far enough from the blank slate of Jan. That’s a question best left to the listmakers of “top somewhat meaningless philosophical queries of 2014.” Can a calendar year really be drawing to a close if no one stops to make a list of the top cultural output of the past 12 months?