Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

I can be sarcastic.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You can make fun of everything.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Great humorists are great insulters.