18 Facts About Lisa Lampanelli

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Lisa Lampanelli was born on Lisa Marie Lampugnale; July 19,1961 and is an American former stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic.

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Lisa Lampanelli attended Roman Catholic schools, studied journalism at Boston College and Syracuse University, and attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard.

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Lisa Lampanelli worked as a copy editor at Popular Mechanics and an assistant at Rolling Stone.

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Lisa Lampanelli began her stand-up career in New York in the early 1990s.

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Lisa Lampanelli 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.

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Lisa 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.

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Lisa Lampanelli taped her stand-up special Dirty Girl in the fall of 2006, which aired on Comedy Central on January 28,2007.

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On November 21,2008, in Santa Rosa, California, Lisa Lampanelli taped her first one-hour HBO Special at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts.

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Lisa Lampanelli's one-woman show, Bring Back the Fat Chick, debuted on Broadway in 2012.

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Lisa Lampanelli underwent gastric-sleeve surgery in 2012, and lost over 100 pounds.

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Lisa Lampanelli reported the change made her reevaluate many things in her life, she amicably divorced her husband, and introduced him to the woman he ultimately married.

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Lisa Lampanelli started to think that her insult comedy was being misunderstood by some, when she didn't intend to be hurtful to anyone.

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Lisa Lampanelli was a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice 5.

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Lisa Lampanelli was criticized by viewers and had numerous outbursts and clashes with other contestants, including Victoria Gotti, Arsenio Hall, Lou Ferrigno, and Dayana Mendoza.

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Lisa Lampanelli refused to apologize for her treatment of other contestants and racist remarks about Hispanics.

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Lisa Lampanelli was fired on May 6,2012, during the Final Four interview because John Rich and Marlee Matlin thought she was overly emotional.

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Much is quite funny, and Lisa Lampanelli never pulls her punches.

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Lisa Lampanelli married Jimmy Cannizzaro, a former tavern owner from Valley Stream, New York, on October 2,2010, at the New York Friars' Club.