A reunion three years in the making...

Tonight I had the distinct pleasure of hopping in my car, driving 7.5 minutes down the road with Andrew to the Victoria Theater and meeting Lauren, Paul, Matt and Shawn to reconnect with our long lost friend... Lisa Lampanelli...

Lisa Lampanelli, LL as I call her - as we are on an initial basis, is what is known in 'the industry' as an insult comic.  She makes fun of every race, religion and sexual abomination.  She is essentially, my hero.  The show was great, I laughed the whole time and though her ticket prices were a lot higher than they were when Lauren, Matt and I started supporting our fag hag so many years ago at Go Bananas, it was worth it. To be able to check out of reality, even for just a few hours, and forget about everything else thats going on  outside of this place, is priceless.  All in all - money well spent, with my favorite people.

There are other comedians that I enjoy, and by enjoy I mean I can tolerate every so often... i.e. Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Ralphie May, ANT and a few more, but LL takes the cake, and here's why.

Her act is based on everyone thinks they are so different, but really we're all the same when it comes down to it - and furthermore, we should all be able to look at ourselves, not take ourselves so seriously, and just be able to laugh at our differences.   The funny thing is, there are people that consider her insensitive, objectionable and outright offensive, when the reality is she's the least judgmental person there is.  She attracts everybody to these shows, totally diverse crowds and in my opinion, if the world were filled with LL audiences, we'd all live in a better place.

So the moral of tonights story is - Don't take yourself so seriously... it's okay to laugh, especially at yourself!