Episode 320 - Lisa Ann Walter
Breaking Bread with Tom Papa
All Things Comedy
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:29.7 | There were not women doing what I was doing. There were hardly any that were parents. |
| 0:35.5 | So I didn't have a lot of time to go and do set. I should have. I should have continued straight through with the stand-up, got into the next relationship. He told me stand-up's not feminine. Who didn't do it? Second husband. Said that it's not feminine? It's a brief story. It's in the act is I have four kids, two ex-husband, the first one was a lovely |
| 0:54.6 | Jewish guy. Turns out we had too much in common. He also liked men. The second one was a cheater, |
| 1:00.0 | which is not technically a religion, but he practiced it like it was. What the fuck was |
| 1:04.2 | orthodox? So anyway, the relationship was not great. He was not great to me. He was like, it's not, it's a man's job. You shouldn't be, |
| 1:13.6 | if anybody should do stand up, it should be me. I'm the funny one. And I could think, listen, |
| 1:18.4 | I wasn't like a little shy flower. I'd be like, get on stage once, asshole. One time, tell one |
| 1:26.1 | joke. It's breaking bread. Just looking at the ones that i've met |
| 1:30.8 | who have you met on the wall um not lucy no although i wish phyllis you met phyllis i have two |
| 1:39.2 | pieces of her art and hung out with her at least three times at the house at her house. Yeah, she invited me into her |
| 1:45.7 | closet. What? Yeah, I got to see all her Farragamo shoes and feather boas. No. Yeah. |
| 1:51.8 | How did you meet her? I had a friend who was out of New York and she was a comic as well, but an artist |
| 1:59.6 | and she had artist friends. |
| 2:01.1 | And I think through the art connection, she said, oh, I got all these paintings and drawings that I do. And my friend said, do you want to go over and, like, look at her art? And I'm like, do I want to see Phyllis Diller's etchings? Yes, I do. And so... Was this in New York? No, it was here. It was here in Brentwood. And so we went over there and her house was just gorgeous and beautiful and big, like the houses used to be in old Hollywood. |
| 2:25.4 | And she was telling stories, you know, like you would expect a Phyllis Diller like, so I was sitting at the piano. |
| 2:32.3 | She didn't talk like that, but I'm just, I can't really do it with Phyllis' voice. |
| 2:36.2 | And Elliot Gould is laying under the piano making me sing Christmas songs. |
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