Chocolate, Please
My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks
By Lisa Lampanelli
(It Books, Hardcover, 9780061733154, 304pp.)
Publication Date: August 27, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc (September 15, 2009)
Categories: Personal Memoirs, Form - Essays, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Comedians
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An inside look at the life of Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, as she dishes on everything from relationships, food, and fat to why once you go black, you never go back
In her jaw-droppingly hilarious and politically incorrect memoir, Lisa reveals all—including the dysfunctional childhood that made her the insult comic she is today, the subject for which she's best known (black men, black men, and more black men), and her hilarious struggles with her addiction to food and hot guys. By telling her story in her very real, very candid, very open way, Lisa shows her audience that it's okay to be yourself, even if it's just one rehab stint at a time. Lisa also takes readers behind the scenes at the roasts that have marked her comedy career and launched her into the comedy elite, and reveals the important "firsts" in her career, including her first time on her hero's program, The Howard Stern Show.
Chocolate, Please is a side-splittingly funny portrait of the woman behind the award-winning insult comedy.
Lisa Lampanelli Chocolate, Please and Lisa Lampanelli Advance Praise for skyrocketed to comedy fame thanks to her showstopping performances on the Comedy Central roasts of Jeff Foxworthy, Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, and Flavor Flav. Most recently she served as roastmaster for the roast of Larry the Cable Guy. She is a regular guest on The Tonight Show and The Howard Stern Show, and her live standup show continues to sell out in theaters across the country. Her CD/DVD Dirty Girl was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2007. Lisa's first HBO special, Long Live the Queen, premiered to spectacular numbers in early 2009.
"Lisa can tie me down to a bed any time!"
-LL Cool J
"Every generation has a female comic that destroys the conventional wisdom that only men can be raunchy and funny. Lisa Lampanelli is this generation's choice."
-Carlos Mencia
"Lisa is the most outrageous comic we have ever had on the Tonight Show."
-Jay Leno
"Jesus--this book is filthy."
-Sarah Silverman
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