Comedian Lisa Lampanelli is donating $50,000 to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in the name of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in response to the church’s protest of her show Friday night in Topeka, Kansas.
The Topeka-based church led by pastor Fred Phelps, is home to anti-gay extremists and is notorious for its angry, anti-gay protests, “God hates fags” signs, and picketing at funerals of deceased U.S. military personnel.
When the church announced plans to protest Lampanelli’s show due to her support of gay rights, Lampanelli said she would donate $1,000 per protester to GMHC, the nation’s oldest HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care services provider.
Lisa Lampanelli
Speaking with TMZ, she said of her plans:
“It’s gonna be hilarious to write out the checks to the GMHC and have them send thank you notes to the WBC for their ‘generous contributions.’”
“I’d love to see their inbred faces when they open those thank you notes! Hopefully their jaws will drop so fast that their three remaining teeth and cro-magnon foreheads will plummet to the floor.”
While the original attendance reported was 48, she decided to round up.
“Ends up it’s $50,000,” said Lampanelli. “The inbreds said 48 showed up, so I made it an even 50.”
Before the start of her show, Lampanelli went outside to see how the protest was going. Watch:
The Westboro church is not affiliated with the Baptist denomination or any other Baptist church. According to news reports, almost all of its members — fewer than 100 — are related to founder Fred Phelps either by blood or marriage.
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I never really liked her comedy, but damn do I respect her for this.
hah yea-yuh! that whoooooore. love her stuff.
Thank you Lisa Lampanelli! Way to go! Two thumbs up!
She’s got balls! Love this.
she’s vulgar and she’s a bitch … but WOOOOO i love her lmao
Here is one for the WBC, if god sends people to hell, then he must be a sadist, becuase he knew they would turn out evil (I DO NOT MEAN HOMOSEXUALITY) and did nothing about it, what a arsehole.
Epic response! I love her!
…F*A*B*U*L*O*U*S!!!…
Makes up for all the f*ggot jokes?
:’)
once you go fag, your shoes match your bag! i love her and do even more so now. awesome retaliation!
we went and saw her last week and I went to bed with my face hurting from so much laughter! This is tue perfect response to the WBC assholes! by protesting they actually helped the gay community!!!
ExCeLeNT!!!
Wow! She rocks!!! I LOVE to see and hear her appearances. Good for her….especially since she did it a certain way.:)
didn’t realize she brought in more than $50k a year.
Love her!
I love it. Genuis on her part.
LMAO!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This donation idea of hers would be a great way to stop protests, Hope it catches on :D
Suck it Westboro!
This is a great way to battle their protests! It really sucks that these people put their children through this stuff. Look at their faces. They don’t even know what their doing.
Fred Phelps is a nut job and a half. And anyone that follows him is nutz as well.
I adore her
hahaha thats awesome i love Lisa!!
Two words:Fucking Awesome.
I don’t know her but that was a genius idea. More people should do that and then that bunch of wackos would definitely get the message that for a while we were outraged, now we find them ridiculous, and use them to raise funds on their behalf.
Lisa is a member of my AIDS Walk team every year. Not only does she donate her considerable wealth to the cause, but she gives of her time, which speaks volumes about the kind of human being she is. (Incidentally, I would venture to say she rakes in a good deal more than $50K; one show — such as the one in Topeka — can bring in $75K or more.)
omg this is AWESOME :D
What’s really scary is that the ‘Protesters’ are all 13 years old or so…..
Those are kids, they don’t even know why they are there, they are just taught to hate.
Irresponsible wackos.
That is not at all right because some of us actually do take great offense to stuff like this
Oh?!? And just who is “some of us” Juno?!?