Lisa Lampanelli


Lisa Lampanelli is an American standup comedian and insult comic. Much of her material is racy and features ethnic humor, centering on various types of minority groups, most notably racial minorities and homosexuals.

Lampanelli, one of three siblings, was born in Trumbull, Connecticut, to a middle class family. Three of her grandparents were of Italian descent, and the fourth of Polish ancestry. Her mother, Gloria , worked for the local police department, where she typed in all the arrests made, and her father, Leonard Lampugnale, worked for Sikorsky Aircraft and later became a painter. Lampanelli attended Roman Catholic schools, studied journalism at Boston College and Syracuse University, and went through a graduate program at Harvard. She worked as a copy editor at Popular Mechanics and an assistant at Rolling Stone. She was also a fact checker and the first chief of research for Spy magazine a book about Spy describes her then as your average deckedoutheavymetalheadnextdoor. Speaking later to Maxim Magazine Online, Lampanelli remarked, I was a real journalist for Rolling Stone, Spy, Hit Parader. I interviewed those fuckin hair bands Cinderella, Slaughter.

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