As a sucker for all things "SNL", I liked Amy Poehler's book. Not that there were any huge relevations, but just a nice storyline about starting out and making SNL, and on to "Parks and Recreation". The big bonus in the audiobook is that Amy reads it, but gets guest readers as well - Seth Meyers read a chapter that she coerced him to write for the book, her parents talked a bit, her producer from "Parks and Recreation" and random guests like Patrick Stewart and Kathleen Turner.
All in all, Amy comes across as a likeable person (no surprise) and provides a good role model for going after what you want. Not much in the way of drug use (some passing use, and lots of opportunities given the world she lives in), but enough naughtiness to be and interesting and positive book for a late teenage girl as a keep trying story.
I did find it a very nice "listen" in the car - the last two books had bad Henry Kissinger impressionists, which grates after a while. Amy was always easy to hear, interesting and relatively positive (even when she was re-visiting a poorly received SNL skit that caused her to feel guilty as it was a relatively low blow to a disabled young woman, though she didn't know it at the time of the sketch).
She referred to her ex husband as "Will", which I always thought of as Will Forte who was on SNL at the same time as Amy, though some really easy research shows it was Will Arnett, who I also find very entertaining ("Arrested Development" might be one of the all-time most excellent series).
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