Matteo Lane knows firsthand how hard it can be to maintain a healthy physique on the road. The 38-year-old comedian—whose hourlong special Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Special, just premiered on Hulu—travels the country slinging jokes for a living. That means tons of meals on the go, dingy comedy clubs with subpar kitchens, and late nights in random hotels. While many associate this lifestyle with copious amounts of alcohol, Lane is not much of a drinker. Instead of tequila, he asks for lean protein and veggies on his rider for every show, and prefers to only work on the weekends so he can stick to his exercise schedule.
When talking through his fitness journey—Lane is one of the more visibly jacked performers on the comedy circuit right now—he recalls his quarterly pilgrimages to Italy for carbonara and digestivos and deciding to finally pull the trigger on a hair transplant.
GQ: As a standup comedian, do you feel like you have a good amount of knowledge to share on fitness, wellness, and nutrition?
Matteo Lane: Probably. I’ve been working out. My sister is an IFBB Pro. She started when I was in my early 20s, and so I started working out in my late 20s. She taught me everything, like the basic structure of someone who wants to work out and who wants to eat healthy. That life, she basically set me up with that. She had to, because she’s my sister. Right now, I weigh 169 pounds. But when I moved to New York at 25, I weighed 128 pounds. I was very thin. I wasn’t anorexic or anything. I just…
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(Source: GQ)
