Lisa Lampanelli is an American stand-up comedian and insult comic. She is noted for her racy and raunchy

Raunchy

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 style of comedy, which frequently includes taboo

Taboo

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 subjects such as race and homosexuality

Homosexuality

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Lampanelli, one of three siblings, was born in Trumbull, Connecticut

Trumbull, Connecticut

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, to a middle class family of Italian descent. Her father worked for Sikorsky Aircraft

Sikorsky Aircraft

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 and later became a painter; her mother worked for the local police department where "she typed in all the arrests made." Lampanelli attended Roman Catholic schools, studied journalism

Journalism

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 at Boston College

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 and Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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, and went through a graduate program at Harvard.