Beth Lapides
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Beth Lapides is an author, comedian, teacher, actress, artist and media personality. Her new show "100% Happy 88% of the Time" is upward facing comedy of the laugh out loud kind. Beth weaves story, home spun philosophy and big ideas into an unforgettable evening of inspirational comedy..

She writes a syndicated monthly column: "My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat" and is the creatrix of the multi-media comedy venue Un-Cabaret.

She has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, All Things Considered, The Treatment, Morning Edition, Talk of The Nation, The Montel Williams Show, Women Aloud, and has written for O Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Utne Reader, The Realist, LA Weekly, Fit Yoga, Chicago Yoga, FreshYarn, and Premiere Magazine.

Beth teaches The Comedian's Way workshop for writers, performers and other humans with her partner Greg Miller.

Beth hosted a daily radio show on Comedy World Radio and executive produced and hosted The Un-Cabaret for Comedy Central. Beth is also a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. Was a frequent guest on Politically Incorrect. She played a performance artist on "Sex & The City" which brought her full circle to her roots as an NEA multi-media artist.

She is the author of "Did I Wake You? Haikus for Modern Living" and is currently touring her new show "100% Happy 88% of the Time". More info at http://bethlapides.com

During the 1992 Presidential election, Beth ran a guerrilla media campaign to make First Lady an elected position. She was featured everywhere from CNN to Interview Magazine, got as many electoral votes as Ross Perot and spent millions less.

More info at http://bethlapides.com and http://uncabaret.com.

Blog Entries by Beth Lapides

4 Ways Your Camera Can Help You be Happier

0 Comments | Posted December 26, 2009 | 10:25 PM

Did you get a new camera for Xmas? It make do more to uplift your mood than Prozac. I use my camera to alchemize bad moods into good ones, or at least decent, non-sucky ones. I have 4 different techniques. They all help me get out of my head and...

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Rethinking RIP on World Aids Day

0 Comments | Posted December 1, 2009 | 3:46 PM

World Aids Day got me thinking about my high school film teacher Richard Umans. Yale scholar and lover of hi lo culture. After feeling a big bucket of love for him I started to think RIP. But then I started wondering is that what we really wish for the dead?...

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It's Not Just You: California Wildfires Turn Cranky

0 Comments | Posted September 2, 2009 | 4:34 PM

Yesterday was the crankiest day over here at Un-Cabaret Multi-Media HQ. We thought it was just us.

Then we went to yoga and everyone in class was cranky there too. Our teacher said, "Hi! I am sooo cranky!" Exact word. Ok, so it wasn't just us. Maybe...

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How to Be Happy: Be Miserable 12% of the Time

0 Comments | Posted June 24, 2009 | 5:50 PM

People always talk about being happy or unhappy. As if it's an either or thing. But most of us are happy and unhappy. The trick to being more happy is being willing to be unhappy!

I've noticed in my own life that when I am willing to be 100% unhappy...

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YSL's Spring Shoe Collection: I Know Why The Caged Foot Sings

0 Comments | Posted April 6, 2009 | 4:39 PM

If you've been spending your allotted fashion watch time analyzing the true meaning of flats at NATO festivities, you may have missed this spring's most telling footwear: YSL's Cage Shoe.

The Cage Shoe is a shoe, actually a whole collection of shoes, that form a cage around your foot.

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Time of The Signs: The Inaugural Augeries

0 Comments | Posted January 19, 2009 | 6:40 PM

What exactly is an inauguration? Not a coronation. Or a confirmation. Or a commencement.

When Obama is inaugurated what exactly will be happening? Etymologically, "inauguration" comes from the Latin inaugurationem "consecration, installment under good omens."

Good omens? I like the sound of that. I want to feel this...

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Plastic Fantastic!

0 Comments | Posted October 1, 2007 | 5:55 PM

There was a scene in this week's "Tell me You Love Me", my favorite feel-bad TV show of the season, where the married-with-kids-but-not-having-sex-with-her-husband blonde is frantically pulling plastic containers out of her kitchen cupboards and throwing them into a plastic garbage bag. She's furious because she's just learned that these...

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11 Things to Do If You Are Nervous About Going Onstage

0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2007 | 1:42 PM

People say they fear public speaking more than death, although they rarely say it in public!

Fears fall into two categories. The ones you can ignore and the ones you can't. Like I have a fear of scuba diving. And you know what I intend to do about...

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Mass Transit-ion

0 Comments | Posted January 4, 2007 | 1:49 PM

I always have a hard time this first week in January. I feel like I'm supposed to be back at it in full tilt and yet it seems impossible to be back at it in full tilt.

This year I have finally accepted that it is a transitional ramp...

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Dependence Day

0 Comments | Posted July 3, 2006 | 7:04 PM

I've never loved the Fourth of July. And not just because in the summer between my junior and senior years in high school my boyfriend, who'd been trying to get me to go all the way, plied me with Boone's Farm Apple Wine till I acquiesced, and then denied me...

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Making Rain

0 Comments | Posted April 20, 2006 | 11:35 PM

China's got toxic
dust storms - expanding deserts -
and they just got E!

I wrote that haiku about a year ago and now I read that China is making rain. To stop the dust storms. And I have a lot of questions.

For one, if China...

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HAIKUZZI

0 Comments | Posted August 2, 2005 | 6:17 PM

Watching the world change
changes the world but not so
much you can see it.

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War Of The Worlds

0 Comments | Posted July 25, 2005 | 1:23 PM

I am a microbe. George Bush is a Tripod.

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HAIKUZZI

0 Comments | Posted July 18, 2005 | 12:12 AM

There's no us and them.
But still, we're not them. Are we?
Are we even us?

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HAIKUZZI

0 Comments | Posted July 7, 2005 | 1:45 AM

Trying to replace
my feelings of vague dread with
specific concerns.

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