Lisa Rimmert is that rare find: a standup comedian with an optimistic streak.
She loves people (and dogs) — and the feeling’s mutual.
A confident storyteller, Lisa knows her craft like the back of a bar napkin. She easily charms audiences with well-honed yet natural stories, punchlines, and snarky asides.
Lisa has performed with giants like Bobcat Goldthwait, TJ Miller, Steve Hofstetter, and Lisa Ann Walter. Her growing roster of festivals includes the Ha Ha Harvest Comedy Festival in Portland (2022, 2023); the Winter Park Comedy Festival (2023); and the Burbank Comedy Festival, (2024) at which she made the list for “Best of the Fest.”
Lisa’s playful style ranges from the silly to the subversive. Her comedy skews clean as she shares her lighthearted views on married life, being child-free, loving animals, and (note the Oxford comma) proper grammar. Expect nothing less from this award-winning author of Stay: My Forever Friendship with an Aging Dog.
Interviews and Appearances
A little history:
Lisa got her start in comedy by way of improv in 2010, quickly jumping into sketch and standup comedy as well. She regularly performed at The Improv Trick and The Improv Shop (St. Louis, MO), as a member of the house team Galaxander and independent two-person troupe Separate Checks. In 2013, Lisa was named to the Top 8 in The Riverfront Times’ region-wide Standup Throwdown. A founding member of The Last Sketch Comedy Show on Earth, she wrote and performed sketches as well as a Weekend Update-style news segment called The Doomsday News.
After moving to Colorado in 2013, Lisa joined the cast of On the Spot, a weekly improv show at the Bovine Metropolis Theater (Denver, CO). She also performed on the independent improv team Free Gluten, on Season 5 of Denver’s Next Improv Star, in the sketch show Sorry Not Sorry, and in Buntport Theater’s comedy debate show The Great Debate with the likes of Josh Blue (she won, technically beating Josh Blue at comedy. Technically.).
As if that wasn’t enough, Lisa also self-published a memoir in 2022, titled Stay: My Forever Friendship with an Aging Dog. It won a silver Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book. Lisa is currently working on a second book, despite the sad reality that there are no awards for Best Second Book.