Lane Moore
Lane Moore is an American stand-up comedian, author, writer, director, actor, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in New York, New York. Paste named her Twitter one of "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014", and "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2015", ranking it at #19. Refinery 29 called Moore one of the Female Stand-Up Comedians You Need To Know. BUST Magazine called Moore one of 10 Funny Ladies You Need To Be Watching and Brooklyn Magazine called Moore one of the 50 Funniest People In Brooklyn. Bust magazine named her band It Was Romance The Best Band Of 2015 and Billboard named them one of 16 Female-Fronted Bands You Should Know. Bustle named her one of the top comedians of 2017. Out Magazine named her one of the OUT100 of 2017, a list that celebrates compelling people who have had a hand in moving forward LGBT rights.
Career
She is a former writer for The Onion and The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information and regularly contributes to The New Yorker, The Washington Post and McSweeney's.Brooklyn Based said Moore's comedy "deftly highlights the absurdity of everyday life, with just the right touch of self-deprecation," and addressed her multiple careers, saying, "Moore has, by her own count, "like 35 careers," and is jealousy-inducingly good at all of them." Vogue also praised Moore for being a polymath, calling her a "jack of all trades.".
Moore was previously the Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan, where she was the driving force in making the site LGBTQ inclusive, which led to her winning a GLAAD Media Award in 2016. Moore has also written for Glamour, GQ, Elle, Esquire, and Marie Claire.
In late 2015, Moore created popular blog Male Feminists of Tinder ' which was immediately praised by numerous outlets, including New York Magazine who called it "brilliant...a perfect snapshot of a particular, awkward moment in culture and technology," Paper Magazine called it "the best Tumblr ever", BuzzFeed called it "a gift," and Cosmopolitan called it "hilarious...drop-dead funny."
In 2017, Moore created "Hotties of MTV's Next," where she posted her collection of profiles from MTV's Next. The page was praised by news outlets such as The A.V. Club who called it "a time machine that highlights an undocumented era when collars were popped, tips were frosted, and farting was its own kind of cultural currency." Cosmopolitan called the page "perfect" and called Moore a "genius." Moore also appeared on @midnight with a segment based around the account which Chris Hardwick called "amazing."
Tinder Live
Moore is the creator and host of Tinder Live, is a stand-up comedy show created and hosted by comedian Lane Moore where she goes on the dating app Tinder and interacts with Tinder matches in real time. During the show, Moore projects Tinder profiles in front of an audience and panelists help her dissect profiles before swiping left or right.The New York Times described it as "truly addictive entertainment... ingenious. Moore transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation. Ms. Moore, a cagey and humane performer, has developed an instinct for turning the raw materials of sexually charged chat with ordinary strangers into honed and generous jokes. “Tinder Live” has a comic momentum and energy that is unusual. The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form, not to mention a flirt par excellence."
Tinder Live was also called one of the best comedy shows in NYC by The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Out, CBS, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and HelloGiggles who noted the show "has all the addictive, fun qualities of a television game show. One of her show’s segments include going through Tinder profiles with the audience to come to a vote on whether to swipe left or right. This could be this generation’s version of The Dating Game."
Tinder Live has been praised for its positivity, with Vice saying, "Moore expertly steered the crowd from mean-heartedness to substance with each match." Brooklyn Based said, "In anyone else’s hands this show could feel mean-spirited, or perhaps like an invasion of privacy, but Moore makes it cathartic, a bracing comedic espresso shot."
Vulture listed Tinder Live! in a guide to the best NYC comedy shows along with Assscat 3000, Whiplash, and the Comedy Cellar.
The comedy show, which began in late 2013, performs upon request at bars, comedy clubs, and colleges around the United States.
Television
She guest-starred on Season 5 of Girls.Books
Moore published their first book, How To Be Alone: If You Want To And Even If You Don't on November 8, 2018. which became a #1 bestseller. It was praised as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, New York Magazine, NPR, Fast Company, Marie Claire, and others.In summer 2019, Moore gave a TED Talk based on the book, also called How To Be Alone.
Music career
It Was Romance
Lane is a vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the stage name It Was Romance, which Oxygen describes as a "high-energy rock band."Pitchfork listed her self-titled debut album as an album to watch and Bust magazine called them the Best Band of 2015. The Village Voice premiered their first single, "Philadelphia," on their website, calling the song "mysterious but undeniably attractive. It evokes feelings of loneliness with a danceable beat, not unlike a somber nighttime walk home on wet roads, with colorful, joyous city lights reflecting like a black mirror" and praising the album for its "glittering instrumental aspect and Moore's velvety vocal delivery make the rest of "It Was Romance" saunter around like the life of the party, occasionally winking just to make sure you're hooked."Paste Magazine described their sound as:
The Laugh Button praised Moore's voice, saying, " incredible voice, smoky and edgy and closely resembling the kind of stuff soulful grunge bands aspired to back in the 90s."
The music video for "Hooking Up With Girls" was released in late 2016 in Nylon. The video is a shot-for-shot remake of Fiona Apple's "Criminal" music video. Moore starred in and directed the music video, and Nylon praised her for going "above and beyond to recreate the iconic video, searching for similar houses and costumes. Spoiler alert: She even added ’90s MTV title cards."
The video was featured on Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, VICE, BUST Magazine, Refinery 29, and The Onion's AV Club, who said of the video "when sings directly to the camera, it seems like an overly intimate confession." New York Magazine praised Moore for the video, adding, "It’s that weirdness that makes Moore so charming, and maybe the best homage to "Criminal" is one where the artist is unapologetically herself." The New York Observer said, "The classic shots are all there: Lane and Fiona both writhe in satin camisoles, looking up at the camera with bright, tear-red eyes; cowering in a closet with hair in twin braids, singing from a bathtub between a partner’s legs; and in that iconic opening, pointing a camera at the audience: the voyeur becoming the viewed. goddammit this song is catchy.".
In 2017, Moore started a music series at Arlene's Grocery called "90s Albums Live," with the first one being the Empire Records soundtrack which she and her band performed live.