Lisa Lampanelli shocked fans in San Jose over the weekend when she got into a cursing match with a heckler at one of her shows.
Lampanelli was performing at the San Jose City National Civic Center on Sunday. She had to stop her show about half an hour in, according to a report by TMZ, to deal with a persistent heckler in the crowd.
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In the video, Lampanelli gets down into the crowd and curses the man out at the top of her lungs, despite holding a microphone. In response, the man offered her $100 to “shut the fโ up,” and that is when she really lost it.
“If you’re not shutting the f– up, then you’re getting the fโ out of here,” she informed the man, in a video apparently taken by another audience member. “Get the fโ out, if you’re gonna f-โing talk sโ to me at my own show, motherfโer.”
Lampanelli was in such a righteous fury, she even offered to reimburse the man for his ticket, feeling that it was worth it to get him out of the theater.
“I will fโing give you personally your money back, cause I have no need to fโing work for people,” she said. “You wanna get the fโ out.”
After sitting and taking Lampanelli’s anger at point-blank range for a time, the man stood and pulled out his wallet. He apparently asked the comedian how much her show cost, Which Lampanelli did not answer.
“I’ll give you a hundred bucks to shut the fโ up,” the man said. This set the comedian off.
“Give me that. I’ll fโing tear it up you idiot,” she cried, throwing the bill in his face. “Now get the fโ out of here.”
From there, Lampanelli raged at everyone, including the person working the lighting booth.
“Okay first of all, lighting, did I fโing tell to leave those fโing lights up. I said it and I fโing mean it you fโing moron.”
As the crowd became restless, Lampanellitook aim at them as well. “Anyone who thinks I need any fโing help needs to shut the fโ up. Every one of you, I am talking to this guy” โ she indicated one member of the crowd, which she was still standing in the middle of โ “I didn’t need your help with any of my life, I don’t need it now. So shut the fโ up, and let me have a conversation.”
“We love you!” yelled someone on the balcony.
“I was just saying to be quiet, Stevie Nicks’ retarded fโing cousin,” Lampanelli said, pointing a finger at them.
Lampanelli reportedly left the stage about half an hour into a show that was intended to be more than an hour long. The comedian has yet to address her night of outbursts.