Lisa Lampanelli
Lisa Lampanelli
Lisa Lampanelli#1
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:12am
How do you feel about her comedy?
I like it...even though it's all insults.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#2
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:35amMe too...but if you fall into one of the groups that she insults and then "appologizes" (and some get it more than others) you may not be a fan..
re: Lisa Lampanelli#4
Posted: 7/9/09 at 10:26amShe reminds me of a much coarser Lily Tomlin. You laugh, feel a little guilty afterwards and look around to see if everyone else is laughing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
re: Lisa Lampanelli#6
Posted: 7/9/09 at 11:50amOh, I love her, but I'm a fan of insult comedy anyway. She's made me cry many, many times before.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#7
Posted: 7/9/09 at 12:10pmShe is hilarious... people just need to stop being uptight.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#8
Posted: 7/9/09 at 8:52pmLove her! PC or not.
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
re: Lisa Lampanelli#9
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:01pm
I've created threads about her before on these boards. She's in my top of favorites of all-time!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE HER! Saw her live and met her beforehand.
What I love about her is that she uses stereotypes in her favor and yet it is clear she doesn't buy into it. And she leaves NO ONE out. She picks on the white man, black man, females, latinos, gays, fag hags, cripples, elderly, chinese, jews, italians...everyone!!
--Aristotle
re: Lisa Lampanelli#10
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:40pm
"What I love about her is that she uses stereotypes in her favor and yet it is clear she doesn't buy into it."
I'm not really clear what you mean by that, but it seems to me as if you're making excuses for her. I mean, ultimately I agree with you when you say Lisa Lampugnale uses stereotypes in her favor, because whenever she calls another woman the c-word it strikes me as a woman who wants the guys to like her because she trashes other women. She opens her mouth and all I can think of is this:
False consciousness
re: Lisa Lampanelli#12
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:46pmNo. I just think Lumpagnale fans give her way way too much benefit of the doubt. She's a real life grown up female version of the South Park cartoons. And she gets her rocks off saying the things she says just as much as the goonish Matt and Trey.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#13
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:48pmAND WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? she's funny. If you don't like it, don't watch/listen to it. Just because your panties get twisted doesn't mean you have to try and be a downer for the rest of us. some of us can still actually laugh at things.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#14
Posted: 7/9/09 at 9:59pm
Yes. And it's Lumpagnale's mean-spirited laughing at that I take issue with and I only bring it up when somebody labels it as "refreshingly un-pc." She exists to reaffirm the status quo and people from the groups she puts down who think they're "laughing along with her" overlook that fact.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#15
Posted: 7/9/09 at 10:19pmTo paraphrase someone's signature who I cannot for the life of me remember, "Namo is right, as usual."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#16
Posted: 7/9/09 at 10:24pm
Good lord, did someone not hug you enough as a child that made you so incapable of having a positive thought about ANYTHING? seriously namo. You need to lighten up every once in a while.
although, if you tell me you find Dane Cook funny I'll just stop trying because it will be obvious that you just have the worst sense of humor in the world.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#17
Posted: 7/9/09 at 10:35pm
Dude, I LOVE comedy. I have seen literally hours and hours and hours of live comedy performances from the 1980s on. I am a student of comedy and in fact was taught by a guy who consequently has gone on to huge success in his comedy career that mystifies me to this day. He's a very funny, nice guy in real life, but the direction he moved his career in is similar to Lumpagnelli's. Generally mean-spirited and hugely successful. I still like him, personally, but I get turned off by people who don't come from the Second City school of thought, which, basically, involves speaking truth to power.
The reason I choose to use Lumpagnelli's real name is because that is what she went by when she was a researcher at SPY Magazine and I might have hoped she had retained even a shred of that magazine's world view of pricking the pompous, as opposed to stomping on the little guy. Instead, she somewhat changes her name, to what end I do not know, and then cobbles together a comedy act like some science experiment designed to reaffirm what the rudest and not-exactly smartest straight white males of this culture "are really thinking." I think that's noteworthy and I brought it up to explain, to explicitly lay out the reasons why I now have a negative visceral response to the very sight of her.
Given that the original post is "How you feel about her comedy?" I would hardly say my analysis is out of line in this thread. And the best you can come up with is I must not have been hugged as a child?
re: Lisa Lampanelli#18
Posted: 7/9/09 at 10:48pmBut her fanbase isn't "straight white males" you're completely misrepresenting her because you think she's mean.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#19
Posted: 7/10/09 at 12:01am
I think everyone's opinion given in this thread is very valid.
I just happen to have met her and had an hour-long convo with her and think she is nice. I understand her, the person, as well as her, the comedienne.
--Aristotle
re: Lisa Lampanelli#20
Posted: 7/10/09 at 12:06am
An hour long conversation?
Something tells me that wasn't at a CD signing in the lobby!
Also CapnHook, don't forget deaf people! She loves to make fun of them too!
re: Lisa Lampanelli#21
Posted: 7/10/09 at 12:18am
"You guys actually think I pushed a cripple girl down the stairs. No, there was a raft; it was like a ride"
-- I paraphrase from memory.
re: Lisa Lampanelli#23
Posted: 7/10/09 at 1:02pm
Liverpool, I wasn't "representing" her audience, I was discussing her comedic point of view. What's so "different" about her, what her entie schtick amounts to, is although she's a woman, she's "just one of the guys".
Perhaps you haven't considered what demographic books and owns most of the comedy clubs in this country or how difficult it is for women to get a break in them, but Lumpagnelli's strategy is carefully calibrated to uphold the status quo while doing absolutely no favors for other women in the business.
She makes sure she gets hers though while suggesting other women can, as she might so colofully put it, "go punch themselves in the c--t."
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