Who wants to be stuck being Lori Ann Rambough your whole life?
Not Sommore. The sassy, brassy comedienne nixed her name at the start of her career over a decade ago and never looked back.
''When people like something a lot they want some more,'' says the 41-year-old part-time Fort Lauderdale resident. ``It's just sexy.''
The moniker has posed some problems, though.
''There are those Girl Scout cookies [S'mores] and then that girl from The Ring [Samara],'' she says. ``My manager was like, girl, how attached are you to this? I told him if Chaka Khan can make it, so can I.''
Sommore has definitely made it, having already appeared on TV's Def Comedy Jam, The Hughleys and The Parkers and in such movies as Soul Plane, Friday After Next and Something New. She is one of the highest grossing women in comedy today and her fan base
continues to grow, thanks to a
recent stint on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club.
She toughed out boot camp with various reality TV magnets, including child stars Happy Days'Erin Moran, Saved by the Bell's Dustin Diamond and Eight is Enough's Willie Aames. Alas, the 11 pounds she shed are back on. ''It's hard to find black beans and brown rice at the nightclubs,'' Sommore says. ``It's too bad quesadillas, wings and margaritas aren't good for you.''
The show allowed her the chance to get up close and personal with one of her idols.
''I grew up watching Erin on Happy Days and the next thing I know she's my roommate,'' she says. ``One night I think I just stayed up watching her sleep.''
Fans can get a dose of Sommore's act on her The Queen Stands Alone tour, which debuts on Comedy Central 1 a.m. Saturday. The DVD comes out Sept. 30. Expect a mix of standard sex and weight jokes, plus a few more about children.
''I'm afraid of them,'' admits the former schoolteacher. ``They wanted me to talk to inner city kids and I'm like, no, they scare me. They're too brutally honest.''
Sommore will also work the room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in October.
It'll be good to be back.
''I don't ever have to go on vacation because I have a house there,'' she says. `It's paradise.''
Even with the hurricanes?
''I always say it's like being in an abusive relationship,'' she continues. ``Everything is going great then, you go, Oh, now I remember why I left this guy!''
-- MADELEINE MARR
Soure:Miamiherald.com
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