Loni Love Keeps It Real in Her New Book

The memoir traces her trajectory from Detroit projects to multi-hyphenate comedian

ALoni Love attends The Women’s Cancer Research Fund’s Unforgettable Evening 2020 on February 27, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.

It wasn’t until college that she started dabbling in comedy, and though she took an engineering job in California, she moonlit as a standup comedian, eventually becoming a regular at the Laugh Factory in L.A. and then a finalist on Star Search in 2003.

As she sums up the book: “It’s a comedy memoir that tells the story about being homeless, married, how I went from being A to B, being an Emmy Award winner — it’s juicy.”

The media personality, comedian, writer, podcast host, and now host of an Instagram Live show called #QuarantineWithLoni, speaks about the importance of Black women telling their own stories, the shift in comedy, and Diana Ross, all from her home in California — where she is Zooming episodes of The Real.

Another thing you talk about in the book is the experience of being a plus-size woman?