The hardest shows for me to do are when I do either charity shows or corporations - because those are people who come for different reasons, so those are a bit tricky.” “What’s great about being a performer that’s kind of well known is people come to see you and they know what they’re coming to see, and they respond accordingly. What’s it like being on the road again and touring? She and her husband “like playing golf and complaining why we are so bad at golf.” And yes, she is doing a lot of gigs across the country at her own pace. I said to my doctor, ‘Should I just stop doing shows?’ and he said, ‘That’s what’s going to get you through it - you are going to have to do things.’” “There were nights when I just wanted to run off stage, I was so sick. “That was tricky because I didn’t want to say anything because it’s very hard to laugh at somebody who says, ‘A funny thing happened to me on the way to chemotherapy” - so I kept that quiet and I had some female advocates who were the talent booker and the head of the casino and everybody just kind of rallied with me, and when I wasn’t feeling well I didn’t have to do my show and I ended up doing three shows a week instead of six for a while, but nobody really noticed, and I wore a wig and I got through it.”Ĭomedy is hard and making people laugh when you are going through something so serious certainly has its challenges. “That was a tough time and that’s all in the book,” recalls Rudner. The author of five books, Rudner says she began writing her memoir during the pandemic after she “grew tired of doing crossword puzzles.” She started where she always starts with her material - from the truth, writing about her family and “lots of things that have happened to me that nobody knows about.” Like the fact that 13 years ago, during her Las Vegas residency, she was diagnosed with stage 3 uterine cancer. We didn’t sell our house in Vegas till this past January and we moved permanently to California (near Laguna Beach), and I’m just having lot of fun - I’m doing one-nighters,” says Rudner, who is celebrating 35 years of marriage to Martin Bergman, an Englishman with a sketch comedy and television background from Cambridge University, with whom she frequently collaborates, writing plays and films.
I had one contract that got canceled and they gave me another contract and that got cancelled during the second year of the pandemic, and during that time I just realized I didn’t want to work like that anymore. These days Rudner seems to be enjoying life, both at home and on the road, post-Vegas. I’m glad I stopped being one of the bedraggled parents holding the heavy things - all the parents are pushing and holding and all the kids are going, ‘Hurry up!’” And like most parents, the empty nest syndrome is real for her. She loves her house and says she “really enjoys walking my dog” or “sitting on the bed with my dog.” She likes to play tennis. Despite her fame and success, Rudner is remarkably down to earth.
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