Lisa Loeb (Amsterdam, 1989) is a comedian, writer, and presenter. In 2021, she wonDe Slimste Mens (The Smartest Person, Dutch TV), where she stood out for her sharp humor and lightning-fast mind. Since then, she has built a diverse media career, with columns that regularly go viral, books, podcasts, as a presenter of TV programs, and as a speaker and event moderator.

Lisa is one of the Netherlands' most prominent feminist voices. She speaks about inequality with humor and sharp analysis. She does this through her columns on NPO Radio 1, with which she reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners weekly – her most-viewed column about the structural underestimation of pain in women even achieved 1.8 million views. From September 2025, she is also a regular columnist for &C magazine, both online and in print.

Lisa wrote the books Bang on living (laughingly) with an anxiety disorder (2022) andDit Kan Geen Toeval Zijn (2025), both of which entered the Bestseller Top 60. In spring 2026, her third book Fopfeminisme (on fake feminism) will be published, a confrontational book about how the Netherlands fools itself with the idea that we're leading in emancipation, while the statistics show we're being overtaken on all fronts. 

For her work on women's emancipation, Lisa received the Mensa Fonds Impact Award. The jury praised how she 'makes subjects like women's position and mental health discussable with humor and openness.' In the run-up to the 2025 elections, Lisa is working with LINDA. and Women Inc. on a national campaign to put women's safety higher on the political agenda.

Additionally, Lisa has more than fifteen years of experience as a comedian. She has performed in virtually every theater in the Netherlands and at festivals like Lowlands and Zwarte Cross, and was nominated three times for the Annie M.G. Schmidtprijs  for best theater song. On TV, she presented programs like Scrooge Live (NPO1) and FBoy Island (HBO Max). Together with her husband Daniel Paarlberg, she creates the popular podcast De Complottenpiramide (The Conspiracy Pyramid), which with 30,000 subscribers is the Netherlands' largest conspiracy podcast.