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In Case You Needed Another Reason Not To Watch "Whitney"

By Rob Payne | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (20)

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Lisa Lampanelli.

I’m not going to bother getting into why she’s horrible, and why her guest appearance on “Whitney” in an upcoming episode makes perfect, gloriously awful sense. This clip from the Comedy Central roast of Chevy Chase says it all:


That was the shortest clip I could find to illustrate my point. You’re welcome.

And if I were you, I would simply not to watch any future episodes of NBC’s “Whitney,” just in case the next one you happen to check out is Lisa Lampanelli’s episode. Ken Marino is also set to guest star in an episode, but if you really want to see him you can catch Adult Swim’s “Children’s Hospital” or turn on the Netflix View Instant and watch “Party Down” or “The State.” After all, you might just run into her, and you would only have yourself to blame.

Rob Payne also writes the comic The Unstoppable Force, co-hosts the podcast We’re Not Fanboys, and tweets on the Twitter @RobOfWar. He’s pretty sure the combination of Whitney Cummings and Lisa Lampanelli is even worse than the opposite of Batman.









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Comments

I actually really dig Lisa Lampenelli. I do not, however, want anything to do with Whitney. In fact I will turn on Prime Suspect at the last possible moment to avoid seeing any Whitney.

Posted by: KatSings at September 30, 2011 9:21 AM

Unfortunately I caught last night's WHITNEY, and they should rename the show as WITLESS. The main actors are purely eye candy, which is no doubt how they were cast. Thanks, but I didn't need another reason to avoid it.

Posted by: mechadave at September 30, 2011 9:33 AM

'Whitney' is horrible (I managed to stomach about 3 min into it last night before I found a South Park rerun to kill time before It's Always Sunny...)and Lisa Lampenelli is always really loud and obnoxous, but then I read this about her and her cred meter went up:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/theuniblogger/lisa-lampanelli-donates-1k-for-every-wbc-member-a-bhd

However, no parade of comedians is going to save that show.

Posted by: thatsjesstastic at September 30, 2011 9:37 AM

By all means please warn us about any other appearances by the odious Lisa Lampanelli though. You would have thought that Paul got enough practice pretending to laugh at David Letterman's jokes but he couldn't do a credible job at Lisa's crapola.

Posted by: mechadave at September 30, 2011 9:42 AM

Let's see, Whitney has been on for exactly two weeks, and the show has already picked up this huge bundle of hate. In fact, we already have folks jostling each other to be first in line to show how they hate Whitney more.

I'm wondering if I'm even watching the same show. For example, last Thursday, I saw a show in which two people clearly in love with each other went through a little bit of crazy business which actually demonstrated a pretty solid love for each other. What is so hateful about that.

You know intelligent criticism is such a valuable aid to insight and, yes, eventual wisdom. Prejudiced snark, on the other hand, confuses things. Now, you hate Whitney why?

Posted by: Jerry Kenney at September 30, 2011 9:43 AM

First, I like Lisa Lampanelli. She puts on a show for her audience and makes it a big point of her act that you need to have a sense of humor about yourself.

Second, I think Whitney Cummings is a funny person. I'm not a fan of her stand-up because I think it's a really forced character.

Third, I do not like Whiteny at all. It feels gimmicky and tired. The awkward elements are pushed way too hard for way too long and drop the show dead in its tracks.

Four, I will not act as the arbiter of whether or no someone is allowed to have an opinion about a sitcom because I do or do not like it. That's called being a douche. Or a corporate shill. I don't know which in this case.

Posted by: Robert at September 30, 2011 9:52 AM

I knew from the extended promos for Whitney that aired in movie theaters that it wasn't going to be a show for me. And then the ads they were airing for this week's episode, the line about "you have really bad breath"...that was supposed to be so funny I'd want to tune in? No.

Posted by: Wednesday at September 30, 2011 10:01 AM

Jerry Kenney: Personally, I don't like "Whitney" because it's not funny. I don't hate it, I don't care about it at all. I got 15 minutes into the pilot and bailed. Also, it's a laugh track soundstage comedy (sorry, I don't buy that live audience crap) coupled with 3 much more polished comedies. The contrast between the shows is striking. Also, and this is really the most important with a comedy so I'm going to stress it further, IT'S NOT FUNNY.

So you enjoy your heartwarming message or whatever the hell you got out of it. Or go back to work because your comment rings of someone heavily involved in the show.

Posted by: TylerDFC at September 30, 2011 10:11 AM

I've only seen Lampanelli a couple of times, but in my opinion she will not be the worst part of whatever Whitney episode she is on.

That dress, however...ouch.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at September 30, 2011 10:22 AM

Lisa Lampanelli is the funniest insult comic alive.

...Rickles is dead, right?

Posted by: AmbroseKalifornia at September 30, 2011 10:39 AM

I loooooooooooooooooooooove Lisa Lampanelli. She's perfect for roasts, but I don't know how she'd do on a sitcom.

Posted by: Sofia at September 30, 2011 10:43 AM

@Jerry: I've got nothing against Whitney Cummings, other than not finding her persona or her TV show all that funny. I simply don't laugh at what she seems to classify as jokes. I gave "Whitney" another shot last night as I was writing this, and I simply couldn't make it more than three minutes in. It's painful to watch, especially following some of the best 90 minutes the NBC Thursday night sitcoms have had in years. It doesn't work in the time slot it has, much less working as a funny show in its own right. NBC ought to move "Up All Night" to Thursdays or bring back "30 Rock" from mid-season replacement Hell.

And the two leads are "clearly" in love? From what I've watched, Alex looks mildly annoyed that he's even present, and Whitney looks like a dear in headlights. You want to see a TV comedy couple that is "clearly" in love? Watch Brad and Jane on "Happy Endings" (Wednesdays at 9:30pm/8:30pm CST on ABC).

Posted by: RobP at September 30, 2011 11:10 AM

Morning sickness aside, it actually makes me throw up in my mouth that people like Lisa Lampanelli. I just.... I can't even...

/existence

Posted by: Patty O'Green at September 30, 2011 11:23 AM

I don't mind Lisa Lampanelli, particularly because of the whole $50,000 she donated against Fred Phelps when his clan of inbreds showed up to picket her Kansas show. I'm also inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt after her recent appearance on WTF when she and Marc Maron broke down the way her material has evolved since she first started in stand-up and the basic premise/parameters of insult comedy.

That said, Whitney's show is of absolutely no interest to me. Kind of like Chelsea Handler's upcoming sitcom.

Posted by: Jerry at September 30, 2011 2:30 PM

Jerrey Kenny must work on Whitney, or maybe he has brain damage.

Posted by: John G. at September 30, 2011 3:36 PM

Children, children, let's not attack each other, this time, since I have been guilty occasionally.

Whitney is lame. And not funny. Pretty well the mainstay of network comedy. Exceptions do exist, but they stand out like roses growing on the side of a shit house.

Now let's move on to LL. She's obnoxious. I like obnoxiously funny, but she's just obnoxious. However, she doesn't make excuses for herself and she DID donate that money. That was funnier than any joke she's ever told, profoundly funny...and then she told another joke about loving black cock.

Posted by: Sitting Pat at September 30, 2011 5:33 PM

I enjoy both Lisa Lampanelli and Whitney Cummings, and it all has to do with Marc Maron's WTF. Those interviews are so fucking raw and personal, that you really do get a sense of who a person is - Marc brings the best and worst out of everyone (even himself - who at points I love and at others I can't fucking stand.) So yeah, I was pulling for this show to succeed (even though I will never watch it and have no interest in it) and I'm sad it's getting panned. But if it sucks, it sucks.

I can however speak for Lampanelli, whose comedy I actually enjoy. There is something about crowd work that I always found fascinating. Her act is built on her persona and attitude, and less on written material. That looks amazingly hard to me, and I respect her for it. And again, for anyone interested, listen to that WTF interview she just did like last week. She's actually pretty insecure and sensitive about insults, which makes for an extremely interesting dynamic (she used to seek therapy to prepare her for the shit Greg Giraldo and Anthony Jeselnik would say to her at the roasts.)

Posted by: JOE! at September 30, 2011 8:16 PM

Aside from Carlos Mencia, I can't think of any comedian who deserves to be tossed into the same ocean that the government dumped Osama Bin Laden other than Lisa Fucking Lampinelli. She's less funny than a news report from Somalia.

Posted by: Devil Child at October 1, 2011 2:24 AM

I don't mind Lisa Lampanelli, particularly because of the whole $50,000 she donated against Fred Phelps when his clan of inbreds showed up to picket her Kansas show.

Posted by: Jerry at September 30, 2011 2:30 PM

Siding with somebody because they hate Fred Phelps is like siding with somebody because they breathe oxygen. Fred Phelps is a man so reviled by society he can barely get six dozen people to join his stupid cult, and the only reason he hasn't been assassinated is because for all his hate speech, he's politically and socially irrelevant. Even the Klu Klux Klan hates Phelps. It doesn't make Lampanelli watchable in any way just because she hates the most worthless fuck in the country.

Posted by: Devil Child at October 1, 2011 2:38 AM

I'd like to say that Whitney is good. Or "Not Bad"... Or... "It's not the worst." But I can't. I won't even blame Whitney. No Doubt the Studio Suits that think they know funny, don't... and screwed this up. As soon as I heard the laugh track, I knew it was on a path for shipwreck city. Sad!

Posted by: Patty at October 3, 2011 9:57 PM