The Urban Erma

So, About the Letterman Thing

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:33:00 +0000

Twat Blocked Again It’s been an eventful time for women in comedy. The New York Times broke the story that female comedians are not booked to perform on The Letterman Show in equal numbers to...

Living the iLife: Look, Ma, No Manual!

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:41:00 +0000

It’s one thing to break all bad ass and switch from a BlackBerry to an iPhone but when the deed is done the challenge becomes living with it. I'll admit there are things I miss about my...

My Top 10 Urban Erma’s of 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:02:00 +0000

Happy New Year! Thank you so much for reading and enjoying The Urban Erma. I started the blog back in 2004 and it’s evolved and grown every year with your love and support. I’m kicking off 2012 with...

Leighann Lord Joins Team iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:19:00 +0000

In a stunning year-end move, comedian and tech nerd Leighann Lord has joined Team iPhone, effectively ending her more than decade-long relationship with Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. Whether it...

Rug Rats

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:02:00 +0000

If I could I would live in a sterile, hermetically-sealed bubble decked out like an IKEA flagship store display. And then there's my car. It doesn’t rise to the level of the TV show “Hoarders,”...

Christmas Shopping Again? Didn’t We Just Do This?

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:01:00 +0000

This post is a new and improved version of an older post. Enjoy! Christmas comes on the same day every year and yet it always seems to take me by surprise. One minute I’m at a Memorial Day...

How I Spent Black Friday, Really

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:14:00 +0000

I can’t prove it, but I’d be willing to bet that the murder rate escalates around the holidays. I confess I had manslaughter on my mind when I went to Wal-mart on Black Friday. Yeah, you heard me. I...

Thanksgiving Dinner in a Diaper! Let's Do This!

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:07:00 +0000

Kudos if you’ve managed to already escape the office, if you haven’t please just stop pretending to do work. You’re not fooling anybody. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I sincerely thank you for...

Pump Up The Jam

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:32:00 +0000

They say you know you're getting older when you think the music is too loud. That's not true. I've always thought the music was too loud. When I was 18 years old and I went to my first...

Fan Fight: The Bublé-Bieber Battle

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:29:00 +0000

I lucked out and got the chance to be the warm-upcomedian for “Michael Bublé’s Christmas Special” which will air in December onNBC. Pronounced “Boo-Blay” you may recognize his chart topper "Haven't...

Scent of a Black Woman

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:08:00 +0000

So, I’m standing in line at the dollar store waiting to pay. I’m dutifully looking at all the impulse items that were put there to get my attention and that’s when I saw my favorite: the display of...

Running From Kathy Bates

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:40:00 +0000

My friends seem to dig the fact that I now run to stay in shape. They encourage me and give me kudos all the time. But it drives me nuts when I hear them say, “Oh, ‘I’ could never do that.” I say,...

A Beautiful Day for a Protest

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:16:00 +0000

Two friends invited me to go with them to the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City and I said yes for purely selfish reasons. First, I hoped to get a good story out of it. Second, the weather...

Running at the Speed of Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:53:00 +0000

When I hoped for the chance to do another 5K run before the end of the Summer, I never dreamed I’d be doing it in another country. September found me in the Middle East on my seventh tour with Armed...

I Almost Went to Jail Today

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:54:00 +0000

This morning, I saw a Little Girl sitting in the park by herself. She was quiet and content but that was hardly the point. She looked to be about four-years-old, entirely too young to be by herself...

My Furry Baby Part Two

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:00:00 +0000

At around 7:15am on Sunday, my dog Rolie became very ill. He couldn’t walk, his head rolled to the side at an odd angle, and it looked like he was having a stroke. We rushed him to the vet who...

No. Thank YOU!

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:59:00 +0000

Kevin Downey Jr., Carole Montgomery Jeff Shaw, Katsy Chappelle, Leighann Lord Mark Riccadonna I am currently on my seventh tour with Armed Forces Entertainment, my third performing for the troops...

Babes on a Plane

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:37:00 +0000

When I got to my row on my jam-packed US Airways flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, there was already a woman sitting in the middle seat. It wasn’t until I got comfortable that I saw she had a...

UPDATE: American Airlines Has Read My Blog! Thank You!

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:36:00 +0000

My last blog seems to have gotten the attention of the folks at American Airlines. They reached out to me via email. From a journalistic stand point, I think it’s only right that I publish their very...

Dear American Airlines, You Suck! Again!

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:14:00 +0000

So, I got to the airport with my two allowable carry-on bags. American Airlines forced me to check one and then promptly lost it. Well to be fair they didn’t actually lose it. The Miami ground crew...

Give Me One Reason to Stay Here

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:04:00 +0000

For the first time in my entire career as a professional performer, I walked out on a gig. I picked up my purse, bid farewell to the Promoter/Booker/Deejay and took my Black Ass home. There have been...

New York City Girl

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:39:00 +0000

It happened again today. I’m at least a thousand miles away from home and someone said to me, “You look like a New Yorker.” They’re right, of course, but they said it with such a surety I wondered if...

A Bad Breakup. E-mail: A Love Story

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:32:00 +0000

I'm going through a very messy breakup and some of my friends are taking sides. For reasons both shallow and practical I switched from AOL to Gmail. Yes, there was some peer pressure involved. It...

When Daddy’s a Dumb Ass

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:03:00 +0000

It’s summer time. School is out and presumably parents are already beginning to feel the pressure of dealing with their own progeny without the buffer of a school day. There’s bound to be some...

The Great Spanx Experiment

noreply@blogger.com (Leighann Lord) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:14:00 +0000

One More Thing I Can Check Off My Bucket List --- It’s not necessarily true that you need to experience something personally in order to write a joke about it, but it helps. I’d heard comedians...