LeMent Tonight for January 15, 2026

This Week In this episode of LeMent Tonight, host Bob welcomes Leanne Linsky, the founder and CEO of Plauzzable.com, a virtual comedy platform designed to provide comedians with a global stage and a simplified infrastructure for their business. During the interview, Linsky shares her background in comedy and her extensive history of volunteerism, which includes hosting TV shows for children at Kravis Children's Hospital and running improv workshops for various non-profits. She reflects on the "good comedy karma" that comes from giving back and explains how Plauzzable aims to foster community and help independent creators succeed. The conversation also highlights a major upcoming update for Plausible, featuring a redesign that incorporates an event directory for both online and in-person comedy shows, improved comedian profiles, and a more equitable revenue model. To keep things light, Bob and Leanne play a trivia game called "Most Plausible," where Leanne successfully identifies clues about the late Richard Lewis. They wrap up with a round of "Ask Not," where Leanne offers hilariously disastrous dinner party advice involving costume-clad bosses, finger foods without utensils, and second-hand party favors. Plauzzable.com https://youtube.com/live/iGpnBXE8FBQ Bad AI Transcript Hey, everybody, it's LeMent Tonight. My guest tonight is Leanne Linsky. Leanne, how are you doing tonight? Hey, I am great. Thanks so much for having me on. I love that chair. Possibly because I have one just like it. Really? I got this chair to look younger. Oh, really? Yeah, it's a gamer chair. I'm trying to look younger. I have that exact same chair with the headrest. Actually, before we started recording here, I was sitting back. I leaned back. and was swiveling around and made a really weird noise, and I thought, uh-oh, I'm going to have to go find another chair. But I just bumped into some instructions for a printer that I had sitting out over here. So, but Leanne Linsky, the, what do you call yourself, CEO, Chieftain, Grand Poobah of Plausible? Yes, the one and only. That would be me. That would be, well, and you're here tonight, and so,Why don't you tell us, give us a little jokesters, a few jokes, these jokes here, and then we'll talk some more. How's that? Sure. Well, yeah, I mean, I will tell you. So, hey, everybody. People often ask, like, where am I from? All that. I'm originally from Waukegan, Illinois, and then I lived in Vegas for 16 years. And normally when I tell people that, they're like, oh, my were you doing in Vegas? I'm like, oh my God, what do you mean? Besides all the drinking, gambling and prostituting myself. Okay. So I didn't drink that much. And then I lived in New York for almost nine years. And when people hear that, they're like, oh my God, Leanne, what'd you do in New York? So I just ignore them and keep walking. Then I moved to Long Beach, California and no one gave a crap. SoHere I am now in Seattle. Yes, crickets. Exactly. I'm in Seattle, Washington now. Living life online. Yep. Because we moved here right at the end of the pandemic and things still weren't opened up. So I don't leave my house. And now when I do, I have to say it's fun, but it's also awkward because I keep forgetting to unmute myself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't want to dazzle you with the rest of my brilliance quite this early in the show. That wasn't a joke. That was just truth, everybody. Just truth. All right, Leanne, thank you very much. I was using the patented plausible reactions here. I appreciate that. I was also enjoying the swivel. Oh, yeah. I was trying out the swiveled a little bit. Yeah.It's good. It works. Yeah. So what's been happening in your world? Apparently you don't leave the house. So I'm hoping that it's not all just DoorDash and streaming services, but maybe it is. No, we do go to the grocery store regularly. We do. We do doctor's appointments, grocery store. I don't want to tell you the highlight of my week, but it's going to the grocery store. It is. It is navigating the parking lot at Trader Joe's. I also do volunteer service. So I volunteer for a couple of organizations locally. Oh, really? Like, what do you do for that? What are you doing? Like cleaning people's beards or what are you doing? Beards? No, I gave that up a while back. I actually volunteer at two thrift stores. One supports American Cancer Society and the other one supports a senior center. So.Yeah, and I volunteer once a week at each of those places and put new merchandise out and do the window displays and things like that. It's a blast. I love it. I had a terrible thought when you said that. I can't help but mention it. Maybe one of the services, like help people with dementia, basically just take stuff out of their closet and have them come in and pick it up at the store and then we take it back out of the closet. which is hilarious because that's just what I do. It's horrible. It's a horrible thought. You're basically just getting them out of their, you know, apartment or whatever. Yeah. It's like a cyclical thing. Oh, it is. You're so nice. I mean, you do, well, I would never do volunteer work. I'm not a volunteer. Well, yeah, maybe no. So when I lived in New York, I got into doing a lot of volunteer service because in New York, um,I volunteered at Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai. And they had a TV studio in the hospital, in the children's hospital. And it was run by a nonprofit. And I would go in there and host TV shows for all the children in the children's hospital. And they could watch up in their rooms. And we'd run game shows. And the kids could call in from their room phones. And then we'd do trivia games and all kinds of things where they could participate. by calling in and then after the shows were over, I'd go to the prize closet and I'd pick out prizes and go walk up there and say hello to everybody who participated during the half hour show. So that was really cool. And I also volunteered for an improv, a nonprofit that offered improv workshops and shows to other nonprofit organizations in New York area. So like Big Brothers Big Sisters,Or hospice, Ronald McDonald home, Ronald McDonald house, different hospitals, senior centers, you name it. If they needed people to come in and cheer people up and brighten things up, we would go in and do a workshop or show on a regular basis. Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. Yeah. That's interesting. So how many other TV shows were there on this thing? Oh, so those two are separate. So the one- Oh, those two are separate. Yeah, so the one we did improv classes and shows for, and that was all in person where we would go and do these things at the hospital or at the hospice or at Ronald McDonald House or different venues where they would need us. And then the Kravis Children's Hospital, that was separate. I actually met them because the improv group, we would do a TV show like once a month there, I think it was.And maybe weekly. I can't remember now. And then I got to know the producer and I was like, I'd like to do more of this if possible. And so I would go in a couple of times a week, sometimes three times a week and do, do shows, but they would do shows every day. Oh, really? Several times throughout the day for the kids. Yeah. Yeah. It was really cool. It was also very sad because not all kids were there short term. Some were there very long term and were, were, chronically ill or terminally ill, but it was, it was one of the really, it was a wonderful service that they offered so that kids didn't feel so isolated and alone. How'd you get to be so nice doing all this? I mean, most, most comics are cynical and, you know, hate the world. And I know, well, you're right. This is true. Right. And,I would say that I am that person a lot of time. Like I can be that person if I want to, but since what I really started realizing is like in comedy, especially when we're starting out and, and I, we probably do more of it when we're starting out, but I think that no matter where we are in our comedy journey, we're always, we're always doing something for free or for a cause or for, ourselves like working out jokes we go to open mics we're not paid to do that that's just part of the process and yet there might be audiences at these open mics or you know you might get a spot in a show that just so you can go warm up to do another show those kind of things and you're not paid for it people do it all the time celebrities do it right so but i think with comedy they were just bored right maybe uh maybe uh but i think there's there's an element ofIt's a gift because I get to do what I love, but I get to share it with other people who enjoy it or maybe not. But it depends on the set, you know, or the night. But but yeah, I think it's enjoyable or torture. Yeah, I think it's good comedy karma. But I don't you know, just why not? Why not share it with people who can't get to a good. That's a good thought. I mean, that's very positive thinking there. Yeah. And I mean, that's part of what I do with plausible, right? Is give back to the community. I mean, why not? I want other people to succeed. How can we bring more people in and give people a place and a stage? And that's a lot with plausible is if I'm having this problem, maybe other people are having this problem too. How can we bridge that gap? How can we help others as we help ourselves? Wow. Listen to all this.Right? Who knew? I'm thinking you should open up the phones for donations. Yes, please do. Operators are standing by. Right. And even Jerry Lewis is going to pop up. That's right. Let's go look at the top board. Good to Brian in his sound-canceling headphones. Yeah, that's right. Is he watching kickboxing? No. He's watching the phones ring off the phone right now. That's what