Lisa Lampanelli is "Comedy's Lovable Queen Of Mean." With her bawdy personality and all out honesty, Lisa has skewered the likes of Chevy Chase, Jeff Foxworthy, and Pamela Anderson on the Co... Read allLisa Lampanelli is "Comedy's Lovable Queen Of Mean." With her bawdy personality and all out honesty, Lisa has skewered the likes of Chevy Chase, Jeff Foxworthy, and Pamela Anderson on the Comedy Central Roasts, and appeared on "Premium Blend" and BET's "Comic View."Lisa Lampanelli is "Comedy's Lovable Queen Of Mean." With her bawdy personality and all out honesty, Lisa has skewered the likes of Chevy Chase, Jeff Foxworthy, and Pamela Anderson on the Comedy Central Roasts, and appeared on "Premium Blend" and BET's "Comic View."
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It could be really funny, but she has to overdo her sexist, racist humor to the point where it's overkill.
Is that her best material? I'm no prude, saint or pervert, but she is short on the jokes and big on the insults.
Her excuse is it's not racist if she pokes jokes at everybody...well it's not funny either.
There is an entire world full of stupid happenings and events that can be funny aside from just people's nationalities or skin color or sexual orientation.
10 minutes is far more than enough of this humor...an hour or so is by far too much.
Is the President or Vice President not doing retarded stuff any longer? Is George Bush all of a sudden a smart, generous, friendly person whit a heart of gold? Is there no events of traffic problems or confusion of sorts that can trigger some comment about daily life? Do I need to hear every 3 minutes about the size of you boyfriend's dick? Or how often you get laid or how a gay man is a fag? It's no longer funny when it's boring...and it gets boring quite easily.
Comedy is not easy to do and her show is not easy to watch unless you are truly a hillbilly with little sense and respect for anybody else.
Well, thanks for so much dedication, Lisa. May we just watch the show for what it is without that lofty excuse? What it is, is a collection of cheap dick jokes. As funny as those can be once in a while, a whole hour of that gets tiresome. What makes "Take It Like A Man" a bit more interesting is that Lampanelli seems to improvise half of the show. That is she picks random guys from the audience to use prepared jokes on them and she's rather good at that.
So, in the end this is completely mindless comedy without any message whatsoever. It's good for a few chuckles, but there's nothing to take home from it.
The show wasn't nearly as amusing the second time around, both because the shock of hearing uncensored bigotry on cable was gone and because of something my friend noted at the end of the first viewing: Lampanelli says that it's fun for us all to make fun of ourselves... but you'll notice she really only makes fun of minorities. Very little time is spent dissing white people -- I recall a few minutes about p.c. soccer moms and racist old white guys, the latter being just another excuse for black jokes. But, really, how could she insult whites to the same extent as blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Arabs or gays? There simply aren't equivalent stereotypes, evincing the same contempt and desire to wound, for Euro-Americans. The best she can do is to make fun of her sexually-motivated preference for dating black guys, which itself becomes an indirect degradation of black men and their supposed sexual assets.
It's problematic.
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Lisa Lampanelli: It is fun to make fun of everybody!
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