I found in the last year I decided I wanted to connect with people more by showing them
who I really was instead of consistently going after the audience as an insult comic. I still
do insult comedy. I love it. But I've been asked for so many years hey what's the deal
with the weight-loss? What's the deal with your personal life? What's the deal with the
divorce? What's the deal with like these suppose like spiritual retreat to go on? Because I'll
throw little things out about it. And I go people really want to know what makes us tick.
People might like to know about our struggles too. So I've decided to talk a lot more about
those things and in my new special and probably my specials from now on I'm just going to
talk more about what I've been through as far as an evolution in the last few years
and also show people that they're not alone in their struggles to. Because I think that
super powerful is going I struggled for 32 years with my weight and I had no other choice
but to get this surgery and get weight-loss that way, that extreme. So I think people
go oh I'm not alone; I'm not the only one. And that feels good. So that's how I'm challenging
myself lately and I think that's enough of a challenge because it's like wow I'm really
exposing what's wrong with me.
I found that every since I decided to open up a little more and show people who I am without being heavy-handed
and without sort of banging a message home of like hey I'm going to help you through
my struggles, just by being funny about them and bringing them to light, I think it's not
a coincidence that the minute I started doing that I started getting standing ovations again.
I had stopped getting standing O's about two years ago and I was like I wonder why. Like
I'm still super funny. But I think people were like okay, you know, that's cool. We
love Lisa. That's fine. But there's something about opening up a little without them even
kind of tangibly being able to figure out how that they started just jumping up at the
like revelations. And I okay, this is working for them, it's working for me and it makes
me feel like I have a purpose more as a human being. So I kind of love that. So I think
it's really resonating.
I feel I learned honesty from Howard Stern. Howard Stern was always, even in the old days,
out there talking honestly about his life, honestly about his small penis size or whatever
he makes fun of about himself, his looks, et cetera, and I just go I'm just going to
be honest about what I hate about myself. I'm going to be honest about my foibles and
how idiotic I can be. And I think that's really important for me as a comic. I don't know
if it's necessarily important for all comics, but it adds a layer that I think the audience
resonates with you and says ooh I want to get to know them better. Oh I want to hang
out with them after. I want to leave a show having the audience saying oh she's the type
of person I can be friends with. So that's kind of a nice goal to have, even though I'd
never be friends with those losers. I mean come on they're paying to see me. But, I mean,
I want to just have that feeling of wow we're all on the same page.