About Lisa Lampanelli
Storyteller, Workshop Leader, Inspiration to Millions!
With a career spanning more than 30 years, Lisa Lampanelli has been a constant on the comedy scene. With numerous tours, Grammy nominations, and national TV guest appearances and specials under her belt, Lisa made national headlines in 2012 when she lost more than 100 pounds with the help of bariatric surgery. The comedian went on to speak with unflinching honesty about her lifelong food and body-image issues, and has since gone from insulter to inspirer. Lisa is now curating and performing her storytelling show, LISA LAMPANELLI’S LOSIN’ IT!, a humorous and heartfelt show featuring herself and a group of storytellers, actors, and special guests coming clean about their food and body-image struggles.
In 2015, Lampanelli shot her fifth stand-up special, “Back to the Drawing Board.” That special not only garnered her a second Grammy nomination, it showed off her radically different look and featured stories of her weight-loss struggles over the course of her life. Noticing how these truthful accounts resonated with her fans – many of whom fight similar battles – Lampanelli was inspired to write the play, STUFFED, which enjoyed two off-Broadway runs in 2016 and 2017. The play was intended to motivate her fans to work on themselves and embrace a healthier life through self-love and self-acceptance. In turn, those same fans inspired Lisa to shed her old title of insult comic and dedicate herself to helping others through storytelling events, workshops, and one-on-one coaching.
Having become known to U.S. audiences from appearances on the Comedy Central Roasts, the Howard Stern Show, and the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Lisa became a household name when she raised $130,000 for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis during season 5 of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice.” After having hit every possible career high in her stand-up career – including sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall – Lampanelli is thrilled to take on this new challenge for herself and for others.
Fat Chance: An Evening of Conversation and Story with Lisa Lampanelli
"Fat Chance" showcases the former insult comic at her new best. From her humorous storytelling to her lively Q&A with audience members, the no-holds-barred entertainer is truthful, vulnerable, and, most importantly, as hilarious as ever. From her food obsession to her physical transformation with the help of bariatric surgery more than six years ago, to her compulsion to date the "junk food of men," Lisa -- with the help of former "Daily Show" regular and gay icon, Frank DeCaro -- will tell all in a way you've never seen before.
LISA LAMPANELLI’S
LOSIN’ IT!
Lisa Lampanelli has been obsessed with food for as long as she can remember. She ate butter by the stick as a child, chowed down to please her Italian mother, and has lost and gained more than 372 pounds over the course of her life. But, you know what they say: when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And, in Lisa’s case, she spikes HER lemonade with humor, hilarious observations, and, most importantly, real, true, intimate stories.
LISA LAMPANELLI’S LOSIN’ IT! is a storytelling show with a difference. A veteran of several Moth and Risk! shows, Lisa loved the realness of the highly regarded storytelling organizations, and has curated her own show, chock full of professional actors, storytellers, and special guests who have all dealt with the problem of “losin’ it” when it comes to weight and body-image issues. So, don’t think of this as the Moth – it’s more like the MoUth.
With a career spanning more than 30 years, Lisa Lampanelli has been a constant on the comedy scene. With numerous tours, Grammy nominations, and national TV guest appearances and specials under her belt, Lisa made international headlines in 2012 when she lost more than 100 pounds with the help of bariatric surgery. The comedian went on to speak with unflinching honesty about her lifelong food and body-image issues, and has since gone from insulter to inspirer.
By presenting LISA LAMPANELLI’S LOSIN’ IT!, Lisa is helping audiences and performers alike laugh their way to a little bit of sanity around food and body image. Hey, if Oprah -- the most powerful woman in the world -- still struggles with her weight, what hope does Pam from Accounting, Joyce the security guard, or Lisa the comedian have?!? When you think about it, we have no choice but to laugh!
LOVE YOUR BODY, FEED YOUR SOUL: From Starving & Stuffed to Fulfilled & Enough
Do you spend much of your day obsessing about what you’re eating and how you’re eating it? Do you feel guilty about eating, hate yourself for eating what you enjoy, and cram down foods that are “good for you”? Or do you constantly criticize your physical appearance – either aloud or in your head whether it’s one particular body part or maybe even the whole damn thing?
Guess what? WE HAVE TOO!!
Having been where you are, we have put together a workshop to give you the tools you need to put you on a path to inner peace when it comes to food and body image. Using storytelling, sharing, meditation, journaling, brainstorming, deep listening, and self-reflection, we hope to help you stop suffering from these issues and end the obsession.
WHEN IT’S TIME TO CHANGE: Moving Past Fear And Stepping Into YOU!
Do you feel a stirring inside that can only mean one thing: that it's time to make a change? Do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this change is right for you yet still find it near-impossible to embrace it and step into it? Whether it's leaving a relationship, following a new career path, or going through another type of transition, we know how difficult and daunting change can be. Having recently navigated career and other life changes ourselves, we have had to work through the fear and the negative self-talk that can hold us captive in dissatisfying jobs, relationships, homes, and even friendships.
"When It's Time to Change" is a workshop that will give you the tools you need to put you on the path to inner peace when it comes to making positive changes in your life. Using storytelling, sharing, meditation, journaling, brainstorming, deep listening, and self-reflection, we hope to help you get unstuck and start on the path toward a happier and more fulfilling future.
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