In May 2012, she headlined at the Night of a Thousand Gowns, a huge charity gala in NYC, where she also filmed a cameo for Adam Barta's new "Q&A" music video. Her one-woman show, Bring Back the Fat Chick, debuted on Broadway in 2012. In December 2010 she reunited with Higby when he directed her Tough Love special for Comedy Central that aired in the spring of 2011. The special, Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live the Queen, which aired January 31, 2009, was directed by Dave Higby, who also directed her Dirty Girl special. On November 21, 2008, in Santa Rosa, California, Lampanelli taped her first one-hour HBO Special at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. Her style of humor was influenced most by the Dean Martin roasts that televised when she was growing up she did not start watching other stand-up comedians until she became one herself. Qualls, which was released early in 2008, and in Drillbit Taylor starring Owen Wilson. Lampanelli was also featured in the movie Delta Farce starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and D.J. Her Dirty Girl CD and Dirty Girl-No Protection DVD were released by Warner Bros./Jack Records on January 30, 2007. Lampanelli taped her stand-up special Dirty Girl in the fall of 2006, which aired on Comedy Central on January 28, 2007. She also landed a deal with Fox for a sitcom pilot with the tentative title Big Loud Lisa, which was considered a candidate for the network's 2006–07 television season. Lampanelli released a comedy special on DVD entitled Take it Like A Man in 2005, appeared in the 2006 motion picture Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and had a cameo appearance in the VH1 sitcom So NoTORIous. Lampanelli was frequently on the dais for The Howard Stern Show roasts, including appearances at the roasts for Gary Dell'Abate, Artie Lange, Andy Dick, and A&E's " Gene Simmons Roast" in April 2008. She made her break at the 2002 New York Friars' Club roast of Chevy Chase, and went on to participate in the roasts of Denis Leary, Pamela Anderson, Jeff Foxworthy, Flavor Flav, William Shatner, David Hasselhoff, and Donald Trump and to serve as Roastmaster for Larry the Cable Guy. Lampanelli began her stand-up career in New York in the early 1990s. I interviewed those fuckin' hair bands: Cinderella, Slaughter." Career Comedy 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 decked-out- heavy-metal-head-next-door." Speaking later to Maxim Magazine Online, Lampanelli remarked, "I was a real journalist for Rolling Stone, Spy, Hit Parader. She worked as a copy editor at Popular Mechanics and an assistant at Rolling Stone. Lampanelli attended Roman Catholic schools, studied journalism at Boston College and Syracuse University, and attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard. Her mother, Gloria (née Velgot), 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. Three of her grandparents were of Italian descent, and the fourth of Polish ancestry. Lampanelli was born in Trumbull, Connecticut, to a middle-class family. Lisa Lampanelli (born Lisa Marie Lampugnale July 19, 1961) is an American former stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic.Įarly life and journalism career
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