Lisa Lampanelli
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Lampanelli in 2011 at the book launch party for Michael Musto's Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back
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| Pseudonym | Queen of Mean |
| Birth name | Lisa Marie Lampugnale |
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July 19, 1961 Trumbull, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Genres | Insult comedy, improvisational comedy, observational comedy |
| Subject(s) | Race relations, human sexuality, everyday life |
| Spouse | Jimmy Cannizzaro (2010–2014) |
| Website | InsultComic.com |
Lisa Lampanelli (born Lisa Marie Lampugnale; July 19, 1961) is an American stand-up 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 (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. 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 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. I interviewed those fuckin' hair bands: Cinderella, Slaughter."
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