Dirty Girl

Lisa Lampanelli built a lucrative career on a highly specific brand of high-volume insult comedy, shouting through stereotypes and aggressive sexual admissions with a permanent grin. Dirty Girl captures the self-appointed Queen of Mean at her mid-2000s peak, spraying hostility at every demographic available. The driving force of her act is a cheerful insistence on her own sexual history as the ultimate punchline, peaking with a wildly inappropriate joke involving her bedroom habits and Hurricane Katrina.

Filmed at the Moore Theatre in Seattle and broadcast on Comedy Central in early 2007, the hour arrived right as Lampanelli was cementing her status as the breakout star of the network’s celebrity roasts. Aside from her standard insult-comic routines, the set features a time-capsule array of Bush-era references, touching on Dick Cheney, the Iraq War, and American Idol. She also works in some lighter observations on old people using the internet and why she prefers dogs to men, mostly because dogs are capable of licking their own genitals. The audio release of the show was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album.