{"id":256599,"date":"2026-07-31T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256599\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:36:10","slug":"lisa-ann-walter-returns-to-helium-comedy-club-for-stand-up-shows-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256599\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Ann Walter Returns to Helium Comedy Club for Stand-Up Shows This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Ann Walter, known for her role as Melissa Schemmenti on Abbott Elementary, will perform stand-up at Helium Comedy Club in Center City Philadelphia from Aug. 2 to 4. Tickets and more information about the performance are <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.heliumcomedy.com\/events\/134988\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walter describes Philadelphia as a second home and expresses gratitude for the city and its audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her ties to Philadelphia run deep. They include serving as grand marshal of the Italian American parade, participating in the 6abc Dunkin&#8217; Thanksgiving Day Parade, and throwing the first pitch at a Phillies game.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Aug. 3, Walter said she plans to celebrate her birthday in Philly with her fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s a bakery in town that wants to hook me up, give me a special, you know, Melissa Schemmenti &#8216;I know a guy&#8217; deal on a cake, I&#8217;m down,&#8221; she said to 6abc.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Walter filmed a comedy special, Lisa Ann Walter: It Was An Accident, which is currently streaming on Hulu. Fans can also catch her when Abbott Elementary returns for Season 6 on Oct. 7 on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Ann Walter, known for her role as Melissa Schemmenti on Abbott Elementary, will perform stand-up at Helium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-256599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}