Lisa Lampanelli joins us to celebrate the launch of her brand new podcast with us, "Shrink This!". Plus, she roasts Skeery and gives us life advice based on what she can see in the room. Listen to "Shrink This!" here.
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. Oh well, Lisa Lampanelli's been in the roof for less than sixty seconds already, My anxiety levels.
Are through the roof. You love it, girl.
How many years that we've been friends? All of us have been friends for like.
Maybe twenty twenty five years. I was on and you were one of the few people who helped me with my career back when I was a nobody. And now that I'm back to being a nobody, I'm back on your a trying to do a podcast on that stick. Stop.
Please. You never were and never will be a nobody, not at all, not at all.
You, but thank you for the opportunity ell us.
Oh please. I remember the first night they said you got to come watch Lisa Lampanelli do her show. I've seen you do this and that, but I never saw your show or your stage show. So we went to this little club in the village and we sat down and you started in and I was like, you guys want to have her on our show in the No, there's no way this. I mean, I was entertained, dude.
So just how wild it is?
Though?
I was thinking about the old days when I used to come on, I used to be an insult comic. I don't do that no more. I'm nice. So what happened was Elvis would have me on and they would literally people of different ethnicities would call in and have me guess their ethnicity, you know. And that was the day when you could say a lot of stuff. Not that I want to anymore. I'm not a dumb sea. So we save it all for the memory bank and relive it.
Don't you remember, like if you didn't insult, like, say, you didn't insult Italians that day, right, the Italians would call and say that they were mad at Lisa for not insulting exactly.
I mean, I'm so shocked. Italians complained. No, it was literally like they wanted to be included. And that's why I'm lucky enough that I had the career when I did, because back then people were like, oh, include me, include me, and they all had a sense of humor. So I just like to say, when I retire in twenty eighteen, I canceled myself. Before I could get canceled, I said, I'm done.
Well, I know I'll tell you Gandhi, this is before you knew us and we knew you.
Uh.
A lot of people in the Indian community would call and be offended that she would not insult them. Yeah, I know offended.
I believe it.
I actually I encountered her when I was an intern and she got me immediately and I was like, oh, I like this.
Oh very sexual the way you just did that. I enjoy that.
Wow. So uh God. The last time we spoke was at the at the wedding, I think that was, and its been four years. We've talked since then, haven't we.
Well, we've talked. I've run into you in the studio and you've given me that Oh I'm so famous and you only have a podcast lesa thing.
Wow, we get it all this.
You're elevated and I'm not true.
That's not true.
No, we bumped into each other, but I have Oh you know what, we went to like the North Shore Animal League event, say little Donkies and the kiddies.
We did Fantastic Rabbit. You were so she's We had Lisa at her own table with and I hand picked the people at your table at the wedding.
They had to be well dressed, mostly homocessualand or good looking women.
That's all I send with.
I don't like no ugly.
You ran the Big Gay Table at the Big Gay Wedding. You were incredible, Thank you heaven you as their host. You were the official host. I actually said, Lisa, it's more than you sitting down at a table full of strangers, but you had you have people with you as well. You You are the you are the host of the Big Gay Table. Well you.
The thing is, I'm very entertaining, as you could tell, I have a terrific personality, and people enjoy me. Shut up, Danielle, I mean, and the Gandhi is looking like she's convinced I'm actually interesting, but the rest of you are like, yeah, we don't care about her. I enjoy you have any time.
That's how this.
Whole silly podcast thing started, Elvis. Remember you had me on hers and then you're like, come podcast with us, and I got tricked into working for you for yes see that it's a case.
You pay us in a way. Yeah, we'll we'll invoice you. Okay. So uh, Lisa Lampinelli's podcast is called shrink This. Yeah, it's incredible and you you haven't missed a beat. You are still still on top of it. You are ahead of the pack when it comes to your your thoughts, your philosophy. Actually, you help people, bellieve or not. This crazy woman helps people.
It's true. I am the life coach for the masses with the potty mouth. You know what I'm saying, because I think humor has to be included in who I am, even though I'm a helpful broad. You know, people write letters. They compliment me, and then I read the letter. By the way, if you send me a letter, that's the only way you get on is it first? It's a compliment like you're beautiful, very Thinn, never needed botox, angeless, timeless, great beauty, and the best comic who's ever lived. If they say that, then I help them because I'm a giver, as you know, as you she's a giver.
As you know, as I know, as we all know, except not sexually.
I'll tell you something, Elvis around. I'm sixty three years old and I don't need it. You know. I am you done?
Are you done?
I'm dead for jaist down since I was fifty years old, and I don't care because you know what, it keeps me from e f and lousy guys. I say to myself Lisa, you're protected, you're safe. You just go home and you have a good time. See how clean I am.
For the air, you enjoying your hold on. So, Lisa, lit, let's turn this around. Let's say you had a guest or a call or whatever and they said, you know what, Lisa, I'm twenty eight years old and I've given up on sex because I don't want to have to deal with relationships. I don't have to deal with that. What would your advice be, I'm at twenty eight years twenty eight.
I'd probably say get therapy, because I even wear a shirt during my podcast call that says go to therapy, because these people, they got to look within them and what their fricking problem is. If someone's truly asexual, well that's fine, they'll figure it out, you know. But if they're just sad and they've been abused by men like scary, which I get terrible human and it hasn't come out yet, but me too, I would just tell them look in word for the answer, because Elvis, don't you feel that every answer is within us already?
Yes, but sometimes we need someone to help us mind that out.
And I take us a pickaxe and I go to town the.
God.
So what have you open up to, Elvis, I'm curious, Well, you're looking at it.
I've been up to this. We've all been up to this together. We've been talking lately a lot about how this family that we've created over the years is just really where we want to be in life. This is is freaking awesome.
It is true because acceptance of your failures is a lot. Acceptance is always the answer. You're surrounded by these people who haven't got a pot to piss I approve of that's.
A real ticket. No, no, no, that is not the case.
And you know, no, No, they're fantastic. You are lucky because that is a nice crew. Because when I retired from comedy, I realized that I had to really start over and make a whole bunch of new friends because I moved to Connecticut. I was like, oh, like, I don't know anyone here. So this community is very important and I had to build that. It only took me eight years and a lot of kissing of frogs, not literally just tonguing them, and then I finally built it up. So community is important.
It is it's everything. It's surrounding yourself with the right energy when we have it every day and then we add some spice here and they're like, for instance, with you, Lisa Lampinelli's sitting in that chair.
It's true. Like I would say, you said, I listened to the show, and you have it maybe every other day.
I don't.
It's always clicking.
I have to tell you you're very generous.
I'll send you notes. Don't worry about it. Yeah, how would you help U?
No? I love you guys. You know that.
Damn it. Girl good.
So when it comes to your your podcast and the letters that you're getting, obviously, aside from all the compliments, what are the most common threads of things that people say help me?
Well, there's a lot of stuff about obviously, my issues have always been weight and food related, body image related. We get a lot of that stuff. We have a two parter on friendship that we did because friendship is so important to me and it's such a struggle to have adult relationships like that. We're gonna do an episode on should you tell your husband or partner everything? Because I firmly believe you should not talk about that. You have tons of secrets and have sex with other people. Advice you have a hot husband like yours, Danielle, thank you. Let me tell you something. I follow that cat if I could call that on the Instagram. He is cool as hey. Then he's acutie. He's really cute and his looks because some of these old guys. That's the problem, Elvis. That's why I don't care about not dating, because if I went on, say Silver Singles or Raya for old bastards, I would get disgusting old sixty year old men. I don't want that. I don't want that. I want a forty year old or nothing. And I ain't getting a forty year old, So I might as well give up.
My mother says, my mother's seventy six, right. So I said to my mom, som you meet anybody like it?
The Golden Age.
Answer to me is Danny. The guys I want don't want me, and the guys that want me can't walk across the room.
You know what, that's truthfully true, because see here's the problem. You know who I blame for this whole thing is Dennis Leary. And I'll tell you why. Two years ago, I was watching this Rescue Me. It's this television show with these hot firemen and I realized, ooh, he's sexy. Ooh, maybe I want to someday have a sex with something. And you know what happened. I realize, Yeah, because he's forty two in the show. Oh, I don't want to have sex with sixty five year old Dennis Larry, but the forty two year old Hello, mama. So here's the problem. I can't be inappropriate with the young men. So I just stay home and do whatever.
Right now, what's the cutoff?
The cut off? Well, I tell you what. It's pretty gross. I guess fifty. That's good. That's good. Guess. So I'm very wealthy, and yeah, I don't like these users. I don't want to be used for my money and power and great beauty. It's hard to be judged for this loveliness, is what I'm trying to say.
I'm starting to feel like I'm understanding you. I'm getting it. It's start, after all these years, it's starting to start. It's starting to work. I get it. Get it right, if you're just turning us on. Lisa Lampanelli's here. She is a part of the Elvis Durren podcast Now Yeah, with her podcast called Shrink This. I mean I know that you have a lot of fun with everything and anything you do. But I'm sure from time to time it does get some serious. You have a serious moment or two.
I No, No, I would say seventy percent of it is advice and really good like intro, like to have people sort of ask questions of themselves and yeah, I have a co host, Nick, and we're funny together, so it's really good. But we're both damaged goods just trying to help other people. And so it's sound advice, I would say, because I'll listen to the episodes to approve them, because you never know when iheart's trying to pull a fast one and have me.
That's true. I don't trust him.
I would not either, So I'm like, oh, this is really good advice. However, it is humorous. I can't cut that out of my life.
You know what I'm saying, Nor should you, because it makes it more interesting, you know what. And mental health shouldn't be down and dark and sad all the time. Code it should not be mental health should be something fun to work on because that way you're not afraid. You're not afraid of it, you know, right.
A little huber without deflection goes a long way.
Gandhi wants to know what sort of life advice if you're so hot on yourself for being the life advice giver, Gandhi go ahead, ask.
Her, do you have some life advice for us, the people in this room, based on things that you have observed.
I mean, I've always thought we should get rid of scary.
That's fair.
I said he's shifty in the old day.
The old day, she said she was onboard terrorist.
She told me to my face you said his eyes were too close together.
Wait, that was the old least, and now I only say he's still a terrorist? Was your purpose?
That was her opening life.
It's a problem. I never really understood that he had any reason to be in this room. I just can'dding you know that. Right's nice. I've gotten Elvis that I fact checked that did I trigger?
Yeah?
I know.
But you know you said several things since you said in this chair today, and getting back to what Gandhi was asking, what advice do you have for us? You seem to be a true believer, and you, all of us being already wired with our answers, correct. I think we just we need someone to help us get them out right.
I think really people are afraid to sit still long enough to have the answer rise up from within them, so they take a poll of everybody else. You ever notice when you have a decision to make your call this one, that one, the other one, and see what they tell you, it's never going to be their answer. It has to be something that you get comfortable with and you sit there and you go internally. Problem is, nobody wants to slow down. So once I retired, I was like, oh, I have the answers within me, but I gotta let it settle and come out. You know what I mean?
In place, when you ask your friends for advice, you already know what you want them to say, because when they say what you don't want them to say, well why are you saying that? Well, my answer to them is, well why are you asking me if you don't want to hear what I have to say about you. But we have the answers inside all along we do.
I just think we're afraid. We've been told like we have to, you know, look elsewhere for anything. We have to look outside of us for happiness. That's why people buy ten million things and shoes and bags and forty houses like Elvis has. I mean, you just keep buying houses. That's the point of that, Danielle. I personally, when I retire, I dumbed myself down to one house, and I said to myself, boy, I'm happier than Elvis, because you must be miserable time so wealthy shoes with the red soles, Lisa does. I have shoes with black souls and a heart with a black soul.
I know, but you're living a life you're second homeless, and it does it bother you at all? And you're fine with you.
No, it's really really sad when I got rid of those houses. No, it's so weird. We I think we just medicate with a lot of things. And it's nice to get older. You'll see Elvis someday when you're my age. You'll figure it out.
I'm basically there.
Wait, how old are you do you?
I'm sixty.
I'm sixty, wow, sixty sixty sixteen about to be sixty four. So as your elder, I say, your life is meaningless and sell your houses and see what you think.
I'm gonna start working on that. But you know what, it is nice to declutter, and it's not only about decluttering your house and your your drawers and your closet. It's about decluttering your head.
Well yeah, it's about decluttering a lot of limiting beliefs, like things.
The limiting people, the people that we allow to cling on, and we need to let them go. We let them go.
It's just the way I'm saying you're getting a divorce because I would fully not like that.
I'm not divorcing quite yet, because I don't.
Really think he's the best thing about you.
Okay, how I joke, I kid by.
The way I do joke.
I kud about that.
I wonder though, in the if you did get a divorce, which you want, would which one of you would get custody of me? I've had friends who got divorced and they had to figure out which one gets me?
So who would I That's a part of it. Look, you know, the older we get does no matter if you're in your twenties or thirties or sixties. Your friends are divorcing, No, I would get you. I would fight. I would go in front of a judge to make sure it's it's all legally. You're legally bound to me.
I would break that a lot thank you. This is really I feel so treasured now that I wasn't worth the trip from Jersey, but I'm worth that.
It was great most Lisa, listen, talk, Let's talk about the podcast. Where are you going with this? What is your what's the point listen? I know it's a stupid question, but it's it. It needs answering. What's the point of your podcast?
Honesty?
Yeah?
Okay. When you texted me and said, hey, I liked your podcast with Gandhi, you should come podcasts with us, I was like, wow, that's great because Elvis Dran you know, you're one of my heroes and fans. I love you. I said let's do this, and I said, let's do episodes to help people, and a if it takes off a little, it takes off a little. If it doesn't, it doesn't. I just want every episode to be fun. I don't like putting pressure on myself to achieve anything in life because it doesn't really make me happier. But coming in every week and doing a podcast and having a blast and laughing and working with the people here, it's been great.
So that I had a podcast before I was a guest on your podcast, but that wasn't an inferior network atwork issue. It was a network issue. It was it a you issue. You were weren't ready to do it a.
Podcast, someone else's fault. That's the one thing you'll learn on my podcast never to take the blame for anything. No, they weren't bad, no is it was just a limited run, just like you know, anything is so hey, I enjoy it, we have a good time. We'll see what happens.
What do you think of that, mister? What's the point helping people? That's all you've said? If it, then that's what I'm a sweetheart of a gal.
I try to coach people because that's the thing you don't mean. I'm kind of a born coach. I like telling people what to do. Nobody listens to me in my life, so I can't give my advice to friends and family like they're always like, do their doing their own thing. So this way on the air waves, I get to tell people and hope they do what's best. And you help me with laughter as well. Thank you, miss with hot husband, shell shell bread, shell bread. How's it going? It is great? By the way. I just want to circle back so that he has kept his looks yet and he's very handsome. I think you never change either. Thanks. I resent it, but I'll work it out tomorrow. In therapy at eleven am, as.
They say, the people with the best advice of the people who really need to help them out.
Yes, because every shrink is the most effed up person you ever notice you only work on your psychology. If you're gonna get a PhD and be a therapist, you're gonna have a lot of problems. So I always look at my shrink and go, who you talking to? Batch? You know what I'm saying. So, yeah, we're the most horrible people, but we want good for other people. That's good.
Okay. So you're you're putting yourself in that same category. Well yeah, even though I'm great at helping others, maybe you know I need to be opened to be helped myself. And I'm still struggling with that.
Oh man, constantly. No, I'm always I will never not go to therapy every week. I go, oh god, yes, I go tomorrow at eleven I'm not joking. Do you make your therapist laugh?
No?
Never, you don't crack any joke. No, I cry immediately because I always, like get very serious because I'm not there to entertain her. I say, listen, Pixie which is her name, which is weird, and I have to bring that up tomorrow too. I'm gonna say, stop it. That's fake, and I don't appreciate it. No, but I know I go right in because why waste time. I'm sixty three. I could be dead tomorrow. If I was, it would have been great because I do not fear death. I fear other people dying, but I don't fear my own death. So if I die, Danielle tell shell Brett, I'm gonna tongue kiss him in the afterlife. You just can't, my goodness.
You know, have you ever had a therapist that just looked at you and goes and when I don't know, I don't think I'm the one. Oh no, no, no.
I remember that I was going with my first ex husband. I remember going to like counseling with marriage counseling, and after one half hour, the shrink goes. You know, this is obviously a bad union. You should get a divorce. No, no, he is right, he's right. Half hour. I mean you could assess that because I hated the guy and he goes. But then he goes, but you, and he points to me, he goes, you, I gotta see alone, and I'm like, and it's been a therapy ever since. No. I love working on myself. Oh my god, I love it. I mean it's hard because you learn some stuff about yourself you don't like, but then you try to change it and not be as douchey as you were the last week.
Well, people are afraid of learning more about themselves and so afraid that they don't even know they don't know themselves yet.
I know.
I'm business sorry, but that's a hard one to dig up. It's a hard thing. It's a difficult thing to dig up things about you that you're afraid to admit to yourself or you're afraid to talk about to anyone else, including yourself.
I know, but I guess after like doing it, since I'm aged twenty five or so, I'm like, oh, I mean, forty years of this. It's great cause you're I'm kind of There's nothing I'm going to find out that is going to send me over an edge, Like there's no repressed memories. It's just like, oh yeah, I still got to work on that codependence. I still have to work on my protective instinct to like just jump to all my friends and defense when they don't need it. So like all my stuff I'm kind of aware of, and weekly you get the chance to work on it. So hopefully the podcast will help others do that too. If not, they'll get a chuckle right down.
Y'all love you. I've told you this, We've all told you this many times. We love you very much.
I love you man. You're honestly, you're like the tops to me. You're the guy who would always have me on. I remember in the old days you never had comedians on. You had me John Pennette.
Do we lose.
Elvish okay, because it's this connection lost on the screen. And I was like, oh no, great now he's died.
Now my brains, my brain, it's not the zoom.
No. But like John Pinnette and me and you would be like, you know, we never have comics, but you guys are different. And I thought that was great.
That was all of you and he was but we we adore you. And Gandhi is I U should get back on Gandhi's podcast.
But anytime, I like her so much despite her heritage, I would just like today. That's the only racial thing I've said, and it's because we're friends. So if you have a letter of complaint, go after yourself safe space. So can I do a shameless little podcast plug and just say if you do have a question or want advice about any sort of mental health topic or relational thing, send it to shrink this show at gmail dot com. If you don't know how to spell that, I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna spell it for you because if you're that stupid, you don't deserve an answer. Is podcast shrink Shrink this show at gmail dot com. Don't worry, someone got it wrong. I'm guessing that was my producer. And guess what, saleya you're fire. I'm not they give me an interurn. This is what happens. I'm just kidding. She is like my fabs because she can take a joke with us. She's a good gal. But yeah, send a letter, give me a compliment, and we'll give you advice.
Henny, drink this show at gmail dot com. Of course it's Shrink This the new super superstar studded podcast on the elvistrain Catch network. And I'm serious. You really should hop onto a Gandhi's podcast. Gandhi, you should go on hers, and we should all go in each other's.
I mean, hey, I promise you, Elvis, if you come on my show, you can do it from any of your twelve houses. Why not wear your fancy shoes?
Okay, well, according to you, I've sold like seven seven houses. She started this interview.
No, I just like exaggerating your wealth.
It's fun, it's toping. I love you, Lisainelli.
I love you.
I love