Lusty Lady

Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks
By Lisa Lampanelli
It Books/HarperCollins

Comedy’s Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, is a woman of many appetites.
Lampanelli has made a raunchy name for herself unleashing zingers at roasts and talking up her lust for black men. Here, she does more of both while also riffing on her experience at fat camp for adults. (Really.) Here she is on a recent romance: “Dating Tommy was like stepping in dog shit and then telling your friends your feet have never felt softer.” About alternative forms of education, she has this to say: “Homeschooling is the worst thing you can do to kids short of raping them.” She pulls no punches, even when, as is often the case, the butt of her jokes is herself. Her lovably over-the-top story of dating woes and battling the bulge should appeal equally to male and female readers, and the details of her acute case of jungle fever just may open a few people’s minds— or at the very least, make them laugh out loud.