There's always new material for Lane Moore's ‘Tinder Live!'
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The premise of 'Tinder Live!' is simple. Moore puts her Tinder profile up on a screen, and the audience helps her decide who to swipe left on and reject, or swipe right on and engage. On her home turf in New York, she has a panel to help her, but on the road, it's the crowd.
Moore created the show after stumbling upon the delights of a poorly-constructed profile on the emerging app with her roommates in 2014. 'Immediately I was like, this is such a great comedy show,' she said. 'This would be amazing. We would put this on a projector. We're all looking at these crazy profiles together. We're all experiencing it together.'
A lot of the most egregious problems have been chronic from the beginning of the app, like people who demand their match 'not be fat' or ugly. 'Who's swiping right on that?' said Moore. 'This man I don't even know is already yelling at me. We see that all night.'
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Part of the reason Moore sees so many bad profiles is that she avoids the nice guys on the show. She will often interact with someone live during the show if they respond, and the nice guys don't make for good comedy. 'The big thing that I tell people at the beginning is that if we see a guy who seems like really nice and incredible and really normal and warm and funny, swipe left,' she said. 'We don't want him. We're not into that. It's not what the show is. You know, we're not trying to take some really nice guy and mess with them.'
The idea is to swipe on the weirdest profiles. 'I saw one recently that the profile photo was just a condom, a bottle of hand sanitizer, and a gun,' said Moore. 'That, we swipe right on in 'Tinder Live!''
What also won't get a swipe right is anyone who seems deeply hateful. 'If you see a profile that's just, like, really, really vicious,' said Moore, 'I'll make a joke about it, and we'll move on, because I don't want to talk to that guy. That's not going to be fun.'
Moore also realizes that a bad profile doesn't necessarily represent a bad person. She notes she is available for hire, if someone wants to improve their profile. And it can be rewarding to interact with someone on
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The show also isn't about finding a villain and trashing them. Moore is a comedian, musician, former sex and relationships editor at '
At its core, a lot of her work is about helping people to communicate better. 'Comedy and music are just these ways,' she said, 'for me, as somebody who's always felt very much like an outsider, to connect with other people and have them feel seen.'
She is also quick on her feet and able to come up with jokes for a profile on 'Tinder Live!' that don't rely on cruelty. Moore is proud of the fact that the press on 'Tinder Live!' has reflected how gentle the show can be. 'It's something that people always highlight,' she said, 'how surprisingly kind it is, because it doesn't necessarily have to be, but it's just more interesting to me, and I think it's better comedy for it.'
That doesn't mean she won't take on a profile that seems troubling. 'Don't get me wrong,' she said. 'I absolutely also do want to call out all of the really, really crappy stuff that we have to deal with on dating apps. I do want to call out this guy who's saying he doesn't want to match with a feminist. Why would you not want to match with somebody who believes in equality? I think comedy takes the sting out of a lot of painful things, and that's [one of] my favorite things about it.'
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One such poster wrote that they didn't want to match with anyone who was a 'ferminist.' Seeing someone so angry they couldn't even spell 'feminist,' Moore swiped right and cued up a character who was alarmed because she didn't know what a 'ferminist' was, and asked the poster to define it. 'On stage, he writes back, 'ferminists are people who believe in equality among the genres,'' said Moore. 'I kid you not. And we have a room full of people just dying laughing.'
No, Moore does not use Tinder outside of the show. She has had to create a profile specifically for the show so no one on the app suspects they are talking to a comedian. And yes, the company that makes the app is aware of her title of the 'Mayor of Tinder.' But they haven't thought to hire her for anything. 'Mistake!' said Moore. 'They haven't yet. And I'm just like, that's so silly. You're missing out.'
Moore is happy to hear the feedback when her audiences say 'Tinder Live!' makes them feel a little less alone in their dating lives. Because she can't control which profiles come up, every show is different, and as long as Tinder exists and dating is awkward, she will always have a wealth of material.
'It's gotta be one of the fastest comedy shows, just in terms of, like, joke, joke, joke,' she said. 'And that's rare. It's also like anything can happen and the audience is involved. It's just a very special thing.'
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TINDER LIVE! WITH LANE MOORE
June 5, 7 p.m. at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville. Tickets: $30. 617-718-2191,
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