Comments on: Damn Funny Women! (part 2)

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:54:07 +0000

This picture is very funny wish he all the best good luck my dear.

By: Mold

Mold — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:05:37 +0000

Kathi Griffin- hilarious

Sarah Silverman- proof of nepotism

IMO, of course

By: louise

louise — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:19:31 +0000

After all, it IS the Christmas season, Mnemosyne! :)

By: louise

louise — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:18:08 +0000

Ultrasuede is a miracle- this is just good timing.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:49:05 +0000

I have personal experience with this. In high school, I spent most of my time with a group of guys. I’m a middle child, so humor became a diverting mechanism for me. When I’d use humor with my guy friends, they’d dismiss it almost immediately. They even created this mechanism to put me in my place for even attempting to be funny. One of them would say something like, “Oh, that’s so funny I’m busting my side open,” or “I’m going to lose a kidney,” which eventually got to be too much for them to say so they shortened it. One of them would mime a hurting stomach and then say, “kidney” and point to the floor.

By: Pandagon :: Mean girls and funny girls :: December :: 2007

Pandagon :: Mean girls and funny girls :: December :: 2007 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:36:25 +0000

[...] I’ve been wanting to blog about this post by Holly about whether or not the social stigma atta… has also been traditionally discouraged, to the point where there’s a noticeable gender gap in just the sheer numbers of male and female comedians out there. Holly grants that those who make this point have something of a point, including this insightful point by Drew Carey. …] despite the fact that his ABC comedy employed numerous funny women, comic Drew Carey says the prejudices are real. It’s not so much that women aren’t funny, he explains, as that men don’t want them to be funny. “Comedy is about aggression and confrontation and power,” says the stand-up comic. “As a culture we just don’t allow women to do all that stuff.” [...]

By: Torri

Torri — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:17:37 +0000

funny Australian women from Full Frontal and Big Girl's Blouse Full Frontal: the netty Show was a take on The Footy Show right down to the opening song, too bad this was all I could find: Eric is not a Sexual Object the girls from Full Frontal then did their own sketch show Big Girl's Blouse Freaking Out

By: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:43:23 +0000

1) I have never met a woman who doesn’t like Absolutely Fabulous 2) I have never met a man who likes Absolutely Fabulous

You need to get out more -- my husband loves AbFab (along with Father Ted, Black Books, and many other Britcoms). He hasn't liked the Three Stooges since he was 10 years old (and I liked them until about the same age even though I'm a girl). But, then, he likes funny women. He loves that I can quote "The Simpsons" to him at opportune moments.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:43:33 +0000

I was just thinking about this the other day while watching a radio commercial (or some other project) in which previously dull people were transformed. The men turned into alter egos of music genres, like break dancers and rock stars. The woman, she was turned into “hot”. That was her personality. Hot.

That’s why only “hefty or dykey” are seen to be successful in comedy, or are perceived by men as funny. Women are judged solely by their appearance, and only when they reject that mold can they be thought of in terms of who they really are. We can be funny, wonderful people, or we can be good looking.

By: JW

JW — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:05:30 +0000

I used to do improv stuff back in the day (I’m over that now), but my theory about this is that comedy is largely about extremity and incongruity. Since in our culture we have such narrow roles what is acceptable for women (don’t be too loud or fat or awkward! or too skinny or mousey or sexy!), when women do things that would prompt laughter if done by men, they instead prompt disgust or revulsion

Basically women =/ funny, because if they step outside the boundaries, they lose their, uh, womanity–to redux Hitchens’ dykey-Jewish-etc. bit.