Lisa Lampanelli Tries Another Podcast

Funny how they tell people you have a pretty face if only would lose weight. She is uglier thin.

Talentless hack with a shit mouth.

Saw her at Caroline’s about 15 years ago. Hilarious. But her kind of humor is out of fashion. Still love her though.

Lisa goes nuts. Good times.

That was...just pathetic. The theater is barely filled up as well.

She was being heckled from the balcony during the show. She lost it.

I think it is really hard to be briefly famous and successful and then, not. I do remember her act and she’d have a rough go trying any of it today.

She was known as a roast comic and a pretty good one, but her specials have really aged out culturally.

She’s from CT and allegedly a nice gal. But most likely she will be remembered as a niche act, if at all.

Why would anyone want to be a stand-up comic?

Lisa must be a frequent poster on Datalounge. She's unhinged enough.

And I hate her blue hair.

And I tried listening to that podcast.

Boy oh boy. It was bad bad bad.

She's too old for the comedy podcast game. Gilbert Gottfried has an excellent podcast but it's a niche podcast about Old Hollywood that is incidentally funny. Comedy is for the kids.

Never thought she was funny, fat or thin. She was a "shock" comedian, the female equivalent of Andrew Dice Clay, who also never made me laugh.

She tried to do a 180. It didn't work.

Maybe she can return to stand-up and open for Adele's next tour.

r4 Holy fucking shit. She's mental. Is she on the vegan diet? Depriving yourself of animal fat and protein can do that to you.

Menopause is a bitch of a rough patch.

I think she's funny.

R16 By 56, she should have been all done with menopause.

I remember her from the Comedy Central Roasts. Never thought she was funny but then again, a lot of the roasters weren't funny either.

LL built a career on lewd racist humor. Now she wants to be Miss Goody Two-Shoes?

She sounds Lesbyterian.

I've been to her place in CT (think she kept it thru the NY years). Very sweet snd funny.

She looks like an inner tube somebody let the air out of.

Did someone say HANGRY.

I really wonder about the long term financial profile of performers like these. Yes, they make (or made) money on the road and possibly performance fees for some of the cable television content, but how do they manage over the longer term? Their peak earnings might come and go so quickly. What do they do for money when they’re no longer booking any appearances?

Joan Rivers was smart and branched out to selling jewelry on QVC.

Maybe Lisa can make gift soap and sell it at farmer's markets or on Etsy?

She was VERY funny when I first saw her on her HBO special from 2008.

R26 I know that’s tongue in cheek, but what options do you have if you’ve been notable, or infamous, then ‘reslotted’ into the workforce, with immediate financial needs like health insurance and housing and fuel. I wonder if the lesser housewives, reality tv people, failed comics get recognized and marginalized when they land in a regular job. There was an actor on Cosby that landed as a cashier a few years ago, and I felt sad seeing the media pickup around that (though it led to a casting).

In the movie The Longest Yard, Burt Reynolds’s character ends up in prison. On line for food, the inmate working in the prison cafeteria sees him and holds up a loaf of bread like he’s about to throw a perfect spiral, and says ‘heyyyy Superstar!!!!’ Even as a kid I though ‘ shit! That’s rough’. Imagine a Karen bumping into Lisa Lampanelli at Gristedes Supermarket. She might get some harsh feedback from ‘reformed’ fans. This poor bitch can’t enjoy that. She could become an allegory, like Andre Leon Talley.

R27 Yes, she was pretty funny in that time and context, but the worm has turned. Some of the jokes (race and sex, money, work, education) are so cancelable right now. But then so were many of Joan Rivers’ gags. I remember a line she used about and Asian celebrity on the red carpet in a pretty yellow dress, and Joan questioned hypothetically ‘is that too matchy-matchy?’. But Joan was so rich and baller by then, she had f-you money, and property. Lisa, maybe but maybe not. I hope people that orbit partly into celebrity lives land somewhere safe and dignified, but there is a certain fascination observing those who do not. Andy Dick is on a long list.

R28 - I could see Lisa living in the guest house of a wealthy fan or industry friend. Writing a self help book. Doing speaking engagements (female empowerment stuff, or How To Incorporate Humor in the Office at corporate retreats.)

Her best bet now would be to claim some sort of addiction, go on Celebrity Rehab, then write a book, do the talk show circuit, then come back with a Netflix special (and maybe do a memorable cameo in an Adam Sandler movie?)

I don't know. Maybe her career is unsalvageable.

Others have said this and I agree- She DEFINITELY looked better when she was FAT. By todays standards she barely qualified as fat but when she did her HBO special in 2008 wearing that colorful dress and all. She looked good. Now she looks awful.

Saw her standup about 20 years ago (she was fat) and it was one of the funniest nights I've ever spent in a theater. The gays were out in full force that night and she had a dyke comedian open for her.

A reality show about her might be interesting.

R33 I would watch that.

R6- I RARELY find any comedians funny. Why go see a comedian you don't find funny? Just to heckle her?

These people heckling her are TROLLS. I would never pay money to see a comedian I don't find funny just so I can heckle them in the audience.

Would I go to a Paula Poundstone concert just to heckle her. That's something TROLLS and LOSERS do.

She is a legit supporter of LGBT communities and always was.

I run from life coaches (and leadership coaches, one step lower), but I do want this broad to find some meaningful success. She is also 60 years old, so there is a dimension of age that’s probably part of this, too.

I did enjoy the time she asked Ann Coulter ‘Hey, why the long face?’