In case you were wondering, Lisa Lampanelli is fiercely defending the potential Worst Tweet Ever, the one in which she referred to ubiquitous awkward white girl Lena Dunham as “my nigga.” The reason doing so was okay, you see, is that Lampanelli referred to Dunham as her “nigga” and not as her “nigger,” according to Lampanelli herself. She knows this because she’s familiar with the “urban dictionary,” she says, presumably because she claims to have done sex with “the blacks.”
“The N-word ending in ‘er’ is far different context from the word ending in ‘a.’ Ask any person who knows the urban dictionary, it means ‘friend,’” she said. “And by the way, if I had put the word ending in ‘er,’ that would have been a very derogatory thing about Lena meaning she is less than me, and I view her as very above me. ‘A’ on the end means ‘my friend.’”
Ah, thanks for clearing that up for us, Lisa. We’re sure that this will go over well with everyone on the internet, just like the confrontation in the GIF below…
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so full of dumb
I don’t care if she used ‘a’ or ‘er’ or whatever. That’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. But you’ve got to do something when you’re no longer relevant because the Comedy Central Roasts were not ever funny.
I don’t want to speak for all black people, but FUCK Lisa Lampanelli.
I think a better message to the black community would be “DON’T FUCK Lisa Lampanelli”. That way she would run out of material.
The only roasters I ever really liked were Greg Giraldo, Nick DiPalo, and Patrice O’Neal. But that’s because talking shit was second nature to them.
Oh, and Jimmy Kimmel was also pretty hilarious at them.
@IrishCream. I thought Amy Schumer was hilarious in the two roasts I have seen her in.
@IrishCream Nick DiPalo is not funny, I say that objectively.
Lisa Lampanelli offends me, not because of her material, but because it isn’t funny.
Jeff Ross, when they let him. A friend of mine attended the event taping and told me the best material winds up cut anyway.
So basically, there are a whole lot of people who have never heard of Lisa Lampanelli and don’t realize that she’s been doing this sort of thing for a long time now.
Cool.
And also, people who don’t care.
Most of us haven’t merely heard of her, but are familiar with her… if you are actually reading the posts this would be obvious. But you’re holding out for the fantasy-ending where you’re in on the joke. But there’s not a joke. And that’s the point. You retarded faggot.
I’m not very shocked considering all her comedy material is pretty racial anyhow.
Im not going to get on a soap box and say she shouldnt use the word but shes not fun at all, and trying to explain it makes you more of a ass.
Donald Trump in blackface isn’t doing anybody any favours either,
Orangeface
Isn’t her whole gimmmick that she bangs a lot of black dudes? I’m pretty sure the N word must have been uttered on one of those roasts.
It is her gimmick. And a goddamned awful-one… if you rent out your pussy so that you have a gimmick, that’s even worse than prostitution. Because you’re still one step away from the money. And that step involves telling stale jokes.
The only thing I care about is using that gif in every email I send about people/colleagues fighting.
I’m more offended that some people out there consider her a comedian. There are WAY better female comedians out there than her.
Thank you. She’s less entertaining than Hasselhoff eating cheeseburgers… and there are shit-tons of comediennes who could destroy her if they “featured” before one of her shows.
Her incessant litany of ‘slut’ ‘faggot’ nigga/er’ ‘ugly’ ‘fatass’ ‘wetback’ ‘spic’ is amusing if you get it. It’s offensive if you don’t. Other than that, who really fuckin’ cares? She’s just a woman doin’ her schtick. I’m offended when a homeless person say, “God bless you,” when I give him change but it doesn’t really matter. Offense is personal. Get over it.
I get it, it still isn’t “amusing” it’s terrible, lazy comedy.
She’s a lazy racist homophobe. She presumably gets a pass because she rents her cunt to any black person who wants it. Imagine if a white dude told the jokes she did, because he relentlessly fucked black people and made a schtick of it? You’d cry yourself to sleep just thinking about it. Not to say that wouldn’t be funny… but not in the way it’s intended. It would be one thing if she purported herself as performance art, but that’s not what she claims. You focus on words like nigger and faggot, like an idiot. Pretending it’s comedy is what’s offensive… she’s Jeff Dunham, but her pussy is the puppet and it’s still not funny.
Frankly, dumb as both the act of the tweet and the act of complaining both are, I’d still have just said “F___ You” if I were her.
Then I’d go eat a deli. Because, fat.
mind you, this is a “comedian” so tough that a member of Danity Kane once made her cry on television.
How is Lisa Lampanelli’s defense NOT that she’s Lisa Lampanelli?
Who the fuck cares? This is such a non-story. It’s just one more thing for the overly PC set to bitch about. No one would have even known about this if sites like this didn’t make it a story.
Agreed.
For me the issue isn’t about political correctness (and overused, trite term) it’s about humor. Louis CK, Greg Giraldo, Dave Chappelle, Robert Schimmel, these guys weren’t or aren’t politically correct but they’re funny. I don’t care that Nick DiPaolo, Opie and Anthony, and Jim Norton aren’t politically correct, I care that they’re not funny and use, “oh, I’m not PC, that’s why you don’t like it!” as a crutch.
Bullshit and double bullshit. Those of us who make comedy, and anyone interested in artistic integrity, have been tired of her horseshit-schtick many moons ago, and increasingly despise her for what she really is. A fucking hack. Your understanding of the situation is that of a minnow to the ocean.
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the important thing is that black people know that the cajun boy has got their back. look out offensive white people, the cajun boy will be calling you out and saving black people from your offensive tweets! 3 cheers for the cajun boy!
The tweet wasn’t really that funny, but anyone genuinely offended by it (as opposed to exhibiting mock outrage to show how open-minded they are) probably needs to go ahead and change their tampon.
Didn’t Gwyneth Paltrow do pretty much the same thing on Twitter, but she was referring to actual black people as her niggas? I see both of these things as being very similar, and equally annoying, but somehow Gwennie didn’t get nearly as much shit about it.
Gwyneth mentioned the title of a song while hanging out with the dude who wrote it in the city that is mentioned in the title of same song. I don’t care about her, but I’d say her case was even less newsworthy than this.
Gwyneth Paltrow is worth infinitely more loathing than Lisa Lampanelli. God I hate Gwyneth Paltrow.
Put them both in a short bus and roll it over a cliff.
A agree will all of this. It’s dumb, some people consider it really offensive and/or racist, she sucks, etc. Agree with it all. But I do not have the energy to get pissed off about a tweet, especially from some hack I care nothing about. Maybe if it had come from someone with some amount of respect or credibility…but I can’t bring myself to care. I’m not getting pissed off about what Lil Wayne says either.
Somebody just wants to keep mentioning Lena Dunham.
“My friend,” huh? I always thought nigga was the feminine version of niggo.
That cat is so pissed.
Don’t care about that tweet. But since Gwyneth Paltrow was mentioned: If somebody somehow could shoehorn Sarah Silverman and Condoleezza Rice into this, it would be the whitest white chick thing ever.
DOOOOOOOOOOOON’T CAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!
Sorry, Jay.
No the tweet was not funny. But thank God she did not apologize for it.
Look at what they did to Tracey Morgan; basically trying to fuck with his career because some asshole was offended at his show.
Fuck the PC police; they have swung too far in the wrong direction.
THIS LISA LAMPANELLI, I CALL HER MICHAEL RICHARDS, BECAUSE SHE TRIED TO USE THE N-WORD TO BE FUNNY AND JUST LOOKS LIKE AN IDIOT
Wait, so she’s defending herself with the same reasoning as the teacher in the “S Word” episode of The Boondocks?