Louie Anderson with Lori Greiner

By Live Talks LA | April 4, 2018
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
8pm 
 
Louie Anderson
in conversation with Lori Greiner
 
discussing his upcoming book,
Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
New Roads School
Herb Alpert Educational Village
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404

PURCHASE TICKETS 
$43 General Admission Seat + a copy of Hey Mom
$53 Reserved Section Seat + a copy of Hey Mom
$20 General Admission Seat  

Louie Anderson is an actor and stand-up comedian, named by Comedy Central as “One of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time.” From 1994 to 2001, he created and produced the animated Emmy Award–winning Fox series Life with Louie, based on his own childhood. He won his most recent Emmy for his costarring role on Zach Galifianakis’ Baskets. When not in production, Anderson continues to tour, traveling the States doing what he loves to do: stand-up comedy.  Hey Mom is his fourth book.

Louie has been channeling his own beloved mom in his work for decades, but she passed away before seeing him reach new heights in a career-defining role inspired by her every mannerism, expression, gesture, and loving (or disapproving) glance. 

Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too is Louie’s way of catching Ora Zella Anderson up on everything that has been going on in his life. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Louie ruminates on his continued struggles with food, family, and forgiveness—as well as the many things that have changed for the better. He also shares plenty of laugh-out-loud memories about growing up in a “20 percent Norwegian, 80 percent butter” family with ten siblings, along with wry observations on the absurdities of life that only a 40-year comedy veteran can make.

In his first book, Dear Dad, Louie began unraveling his complicated childhood and the demons he still battles. Now, he brings a voice that is older and wiser, but just as candid, funny, and often emotionally raw to Hey Mom, his account of turning challenges big and small into joy—aided by his mother’s strength, humanity, and enduring presence in his life. 

Whether questioning why his mother stayed with his alcoholic father, extolling the creativity and camaraderie on the set of Baskets, grappling with the untimely death of his brother, learning to be kinder to others—and to himself, or revealing how he inadvertently caused legions of Romanians to proudly wear “cheesehead” hats, Louie brings bracing honesty and humor to every page.

Lori Greiner is a self-made inventor and entrepreneur, who has created over 700 products and holds 120 US and international patents. She is a star Shark on the 4-time Emmy Award winning and 5 time Critic’s Choice Award winning show, Shark Tank, the entrepreneurial business show, on ABC, where she invests in companies and helps turn people’s dreams into a reality. Lori also has had her own show on QVC-TV, for the past 17 years called Clever & Unique Creations by Lori Greiner. She recently played herself in an episode of FX’s comedy Baskets  offering some crucial advice to the worn-out Baskets matriarch Christine (played by Louie Anderson), whose rodeo business turned out to be much harder to control than she thought.

 

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