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In It’s A Lot, comedian, writer, and “godmother of alternative comedy” Beth Lapides takes on the personal, existential, and cosmic experience of living through a world of accelerating change. Because when old paradigms, familiar identities, and everything we thought we could count on begin to dissolve, life can feel like one enormous collective existential crisis—or, as Beth calls it, the Goo Age.
Blending stand-up comedy, storytelling, memoir, and original songs written with musical collaborator Mitch Kaplan, Beth asks how we find meaning, consciously create a better way, and become ourselves in the middle of uncertainty. Then she sets out to turn a seemingly catastrophic eviction into the best thing that ever happened to her. Along the way, relocation, loss, recovery, manifestation, and reinvention happen—and she unexpectedly discovers how fiercely she wants to be here, and how deeply she wants to be connected.
Funny, intimate, searching, and ultimately uplifting, It’s A Lot is about the changes we resist, the signs we miss, and the courage it takes to meet the moment together. Because the change we fear might just become the change that saves us.
Short Bio
Beth Lapides is a comedian, writer, performer, producer, and creativity coach—and the creator, host, and producer of UnCabaret, the legendary Los Angeles comedy series that helped launch a comedy revolution. Called the “godmother of alternative comedy” by the Los Angeles Times, she is also the author of the original audiobook So You Need to Decide, named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 2022. Her newest show, It’s A Lot, is a personal, existential, cosmic comedy about navigating our world of accelerating change. Developed with musical collaborator Mitch Kaplan, the show begins in the goo of our collective existential crisis, then follows a seemingly catastrophic eviction through the recovery, surrender, and reinvention it set in motion—asking whether the change we fear might become the change that saves us.
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Beth Lapides is a comedian, writer, performer, producer, and creativity coach whose work explores change, reinvention, presence, and the art of becoming ourselves.
She is the creator, host, and producer of UnCabaret, the legendary Los Angeles comedy series that helped launch a comedy revolution. The Los Angeles Times called her the “godmother of alternative comedy,” and The Hollywood Reporter described her as a “completely unique stand-up theater artist.” For more than three decades—live onstage, broadcast, and streamed—UnCabaret has been a home for original, story-driven comedy, featuring an extraordinary range of iconic and groundbreaking performers who meet the moment.
Beth is also an author, most recently of the original audiobook So You Need to Decide, named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 2022 and praised by Variety as a “potentially life-changing treasure.”
Her acclaimed solo work blends stand-up, storytelling, memoir, and original music to find meaning—and laughter—inside life’s most destabilizing moments. Her newest show, It’s A Lot, is a personal, existential, cosmic comedy about navigating our world of accelerating change. Developed with musical collaborator Mitch Kaplan, the show begins in the goo of our collective existential crisis, asking how we find meaning and consciously create a better way. It then follows a seemingly catastrophic eviction through the unlikely chain of recovery, surrender, and reinvention it set in motion—and asks whether the change we fear might become the change that saves us.
Beth is also the founder of The Infinite Creator System, through which she coaches artists, writers, performers, entrepreneurs, and other creatives in developing their work and sustaining a creative life. As a speaker and workshop leader, she explores creativity and comedy. A graduate of Brown University, Beth brings together comedy, cultural insight, spiritual curiosity, and lived experience to help audiences meet uncertainty with greater courage, imagination, and possibility.
Location: Creativity Center
Location: The Patterson
Location: The Patterson
Location: Creativity Center
