Lisa Lampanelli

Harvard-educated ex-journalist Lisa Lampanelli spent a decade pursuing the standard path of a stand-up comedian before finding her true calling: insult comic. Bouncing from one Comedy Central Roast to another—making her debut at Chevy Chase’s 2002 roast, and going on to steal the show at the roasts of Pamela Anderson, Jeff Foxworthy, and William Shatner—Lampanelli has come to earn her nickname: “The Loveable Queen Of Mean.” In her non-roast material, including her 2009 HBO special Long Live The Queen and her 2011 Comedy Central special Tough Love, she’s as hard on herself as she is on her targets, and still a barrel of laughs for those who can stand a little irreverent name-calling. She’s currently working with The Trump on this season’s Celebrity Apprentice.

Updated 04/18/2012