Comedy was going great, I was chugging along and loving that hour and half onstage every couple nights. It’s been brewing since a few years ago, yeah. On Stern, you mentioned that you made the decision to quit a few years ago. I said to my manager after, “You know what? Let’s gear up to make those shows that I have contracted the last ones.”
Like, with marriages, divorces, I know it when I know it. The this, the that.” But it’s weird - it wasn’t hard because I always wait until I am absolutely sure so I have no regrets. I think at this age, I was just ready to go, “Yeah, I don’t wanna do that anymore.” It’s so funny because they always say it’s harder walking away from a good job than a bad job, because you go, “Oh, the money. I’d probably be at some F-ing theater doing an act that I liked, but worried that people weren’t getting it, as far as the right message. I could not miss anything less.” Right now, it’s a Friday night, and I’m like, Oh my God. Howard Stern asked me, “Aren’t you gonna miss it?” I go, “Dude. So, you’ve quit comedy! Let’s get into it. In an interview for Vulture, Lampanelli opened up more about her decision, revealed how Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette affected it, and shared some keen life advice for comedians and people in general. Now I’m using storytelling and workshops to connect, so I don’t think I was a true lover of the art form. “But you know what’s funny? I said to Stern, ‘This is why I don’t think I was ever a comedian first.’ I think it was my way of connecting with people. It’s pretty weird for somebody to do this,” she says. Although not common, she sees her transition to broader storytelling and life-coaching as a natural departure from stand-up, which she knows was never the only thing for her.
Lampanelli further explained her decision in a Facebook Live Q&A, in which she expressed a fear of sending mixed messages with her insult comedy (“God forbid I cause anybody pain”) and acknowledged that it’s no longer the era of Don Rickles. She found the combination of self-help and deeper performances to be more fulfilling. She was inspired to leave comedy after taking a transformational workshop about food and body image (she lost over 100 pounds after getting gastric sleeve surgery in 2012) where she also did storytelling. It’s not like, ‘Hi, I’m leaving comedy to do movies,’ you know?” says Lampanelli, who started doing comedy in 1991. The lovable “Queen of Mean,” a mainstay of insult comedy known for her Friars Club and Comedy Central roasts of celebrities like Chevy Chase, David Hasselhoff, and Larry the Cable Guy, among others, cemented the announcement on Howard Stern’s show, where she did a final roast of Ronnie Mund for his 69th birthday as a good-bye to the form. Lisa Lampanelli announced last week that she’s retiring from stand-up and starting a new chapter as a storyteller and life coach.
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