Funny women

Orla K

I've been thinking about this thread for a while now. The thought started forming when I saw a thread in AH about the lack of funny female comedians (since it was AH I didn't go past the first thread).

From QI 'women laugh more but they laugh less at women' I think men laugh less at women than men too.(girls and boys episode)

But then I came across these youtube videos girls that do comedy (Dawn French interviewing female comedians)(I should add that the viewing numbers go 1-1 1-2 1-3 2-1 2-2 2-3 3-1 3-2 3-3)

There's 3 episodes and alot of things were talked about like growing up, school friends/bullying, being funny/not funny to get guys and actually doing the comedy.

It's a good watch (there's also one on boys that do comedy but I found it dull)

Of the people I know the funniest person is a female friend, who says that she started being funny because her family would call her fat and try do it in a funny way so as she decided if she got in there before them that they wouldn't and she just got funnier from there.

I'm wondering other peoples opinions on this. Do you laugh less at women comedians? Are you funny? Do you think if your funny it's harder to find a guy that likes you?(maybe when your younger but I think if your funny your seen as one of the lads more) What your general opinion on funny women/comedians?

Censorsh!t

My guy friends find me funnier than my girl friends, for some reason! In fact some girls find my humour to be a bit inappropriate unless they know me.

I'm not really sure if I'm funny or not. But I guess I am seen as one of the lads in a lot of cases

I havent seen many female comedians, but most of the ones that I have seen werent that good. However, there are also many male comedians who I don't find funny at all either.

krudler

In the sense of comediennes, the problem is many of them have the same old routines and topics for jokes, men being crap, babies, shopping, periods (that the first sign of a terrible female comedian, how long it takes to make a period joke) and men being crap. There are a few exceptions but as a whole there are far more funny male comedians than female. Women can be very funny of course, look at Tina Fey, she's got fantastic comedy timing and can write brilliant jokes,then you have Jo Brand, whose entire near 15 year or so career has consisted of jokes about cake and being fat= not funny.

Wibbs

Depends on the definition of funny too though. Women tend to engage in situational humour that involves their peers and audience, men tend to engage in more combative humour and more abstract non personal humour. More women will find both styles of humour funny, but men don't "get" the female version so easily. I've known very few overtly funny women, compared to men, but Ive known a lot of very humourous women, if that makes any sense?

Nightwish

Have to agree that Tina Fey is one of the few excellent female comedians around. She doesnt resort to the terrible period jokes or "aren't all men idiots" routines. Having seen many female comedians over the past decade or so at the Cat Laughs, only one really stood out for me. The rest were just dire - Maeve Higgins included. That one good comedian is a lady called Shappi Khorsandi. I highly recommend seeing her stand up show if you have the means.

seenitall

I love Shappi Khorsandi!

krudler

Maeve Higgins is beyond terrible, I started a thread about her in R&R ages back and a lot of people agreed, her tv show is just sh1t. Even Victoria Wood, who's supposed to be the George Carlin of female comedians, resorts to period jokes and "arent men crap" routines, yawn...

Posy

krudler wrote: »

Even Victoria Wood, who's supposed to be the George Carlin of female comedians, resorts to period jokes and "arent men crap" routines, yawn...

Yeah, like male comedians will often do the "so my wife asked me how did she look.." or "my mother-in-law.." but a lot of female comedians will depend purely on the 'men are pigs' 'that time of the month' blah blah material and it becomes a yawn-fest very quickly. I love 'French and Saunders' and 'Smack the Pony' because it's nice to see a comedy duo/sketch show written and performed predominantly by women for a change.
That 'Girls that do Comedy' programme is very good- well worth a watch I think.

Abi

Censorsh!t wrote: »

My guy friends find me funnier than my girl friends, for some reason! In fact some girls find my humour to be a bit inappropriate unless they know me.

I'm not really sure if I'm funny or not. But I guess I am seen as one of the lads in a lot of cases

I havent seen many female comedians, but most of the ones that I have seen werent that good. However, there are also many male comedians who I don't find funny at all either.

I'm pretty much the same as yourself. Its mostly guys that get my sense of humour, and I get them. Few women get mine, unless they've a similar personality to me. I don't find comediennes to be all that funny tbh, and I agree with Wibbs comment about their humour being somewhat 'situational'.

I've been told before that I am funny by guys, but I think that its more likely to be the eccentricity of my personality, and can be sharp-witted when I need to be. That doesn't exactly make me a stand-up material though.

While there are some exceptions to the rule perhaps, I think guys think outside the box, and are funnier overall.

tempura

krudler wrote: »

Maeve Higgins is beyond terrible, I started a thread about her in R&R ages back and a lot of people agreed, her tv show is just sh1t. Even Victoria Wood, who's supposed to be the George Carlin of female comedians, resorts to period jokes and "arent men crap" routines, yawn...

:eek:

There is no way on earth that Victoria Wood could ever be compared to Geroge Carlin, they are poles apart comedy wise. Carlin was a comedy genius, he is in a completely different league to most comedians today be they male or female.

Victoria Wood is'nt funny at all.

phasers

Women are awful stand up comedians imo, the only one I even remotely like is Joan Rivers.

Writing on the other hand has a good few funny women, like Jennifer Saunders and Tina Fey.

Faith

I've been told plenty of times that I'm funny, and I know I can make people laugh. I don't crack jokes though, I just make very well-timed remarks usually. But in my experience, men are a lot funnier than women. If I'm out with women, I have a great time chatting and whatnot, but when I'm out with men, I spend much more time laughing at jokes.

Women comedians generally make me laugh less than male comedians too. But like phasers said, they're often very good comedy writers.

Dudess

Observationally speaking, men tend to be funnier than women. That said, I can make people laugh, which makes me very happy.

Guys like that I'm vulgar and unshockable. :pac:

krudler

tempura wrote: »

:eek:

There is no way on earth that Victoria Wood could ever be compared to Geroge Carlin, they are poles apart comedy wise. Carlin was a comedy genius, he is in a completely different league to most comedians today be they male or female.

Victoria Wood is'nt funny at all.

I meant that in the sense that she's always touted as being one of the primary femal comedians. Carlin is peerless though.

Its kinda sad that no female comedian has had the impact that say Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce had on society, even on panel shows like Mock the Week or The Panel, women are always the least funny people on it, very rarely do any of the female guests get a belly laugh out of me, but people like Rich Hall, Frankie Boyle and David Mitchell can

Bottle_of_Smoke

I think Sarah Silverman's one of my favorite comedians.

seanybiker

My girlfriend is very funny. Dont find many female comedians funny at all. I do love Ellen and jenna elfman though.

vicecreamsundae

women are just as funny as men, no doubt about it! i have tonnes of funny female friends and a big handful of actually hilarious ones -and yes, those are women that men find hilarious too. i actually happen to be pretty damn funny myself, [not that you could ever tell from my boards posts..]

i know there aren't as many famous female comedians as men, but there are reasons for that. i don't think girls are encouraged to be as loud and funny when they're younger, and then i think when funny women do try to break into the comedy scene it's tougher because a lot of people have this "women aren't funny" attitude, and i feel in films/tv, women don't get the best characters/lines. [i know reading a script doesnt make someone funny but i think it contributes big time to why people dont think of women as funny]

actually there was some reality show in america called Last Comic Standing or something like that, and me and a few guy friends were watching some episodes of it about a year ago.there were about twenty amateur stand ups competing to win and all that, and a good third of them were women, and they were all [bar 2] HILARIOUS, even surprisingly to me, and my male friends were cracking up too, and none of us could believe when only one of them got through to the next round, and a bunch of super mediocre guys beat some of these women.when i go to see improv there's usually a good mix of sexes and the women are brilliant.

not saying it's a conspiracy or anything, but it is as if women are filtered out a bit. like "we already have a woman on the bill,why would we need another? we dont want to turn this into a women's comedy fest" kind of tokenism. and this means that when one of the [already few] female comedians sucks, people are more likely to think "women comedians suck". i could name about ten male standups that i think are hilarious. but i could name 30 that SUCK. but people don't look at things that way and think "there are so many crap male comedians, men are not funny". and i think that's a huge part of why this stereotype persists. just bad statistics, innit.

also, you hear stuff like "female comedians just make period jokes and weight jokes and men-are-crap jokes" -and that's not true, people just pick up on those because they are so cliche yet TONNES of male comedians have cock jokes, and "so i was ****ing my girlfriend" jokes and jerking off jokes. it's a bit of a double standard really. of course comedians are going to joke about all that stuff -the embarrassing experiences we all go through but dont talk about that much. i'm not a fan of tired period jokes either, but i dont look down on them any more than any overplayed cliche male joke.

seanybiker

vicecreamsundae wrote: »

women are just as funny as women,

Thats cos women are women :pac:

vicecreamsundae

seanybiker wrote: »

Thats cos women are women :pac:

ha whoops! fixed

Agent Smith

Tina Fey is Both funny and Good looking!

red herring

What I find disappointing about many female comedians is alot of the time they use really crude, overtly sexual jokes about themselves in cringe-worthy, toe-curling, descriptive language. I think the reason they do this is to make a sort of statement like ''look at me I have no inhibitions and am talking about my lady bits/periods in public''.
I believe a lot of them use the ''shock factor'' of talking crudely in explicit language because they think it makes them more daring or they want to ''push the boundaries'' of society. Maybe they think its a way to ''hold their own'' againest male comedians but if this is the case then it's tragic they feel the need to do that. I feel a lot of female comedians eg olivia lee of dirty sexy funny, or catherine lynch, or chelsea lately, - many of them resort to this and I don't find it funny or shocking. Why should they use foul crude sexual unfunny humour, when clever, witty humour is so much more appealing? why do they feel the need to subject themselves to this in order to be entertaining?
One of the main images advertising that U.S show ''chelsea lately'' is of the comedian chelsea, with a man under her looking up her skirt. The comedian herself is smiling. How is this funny?! Its supposed to be shocking. If some female comedians feel they can't rely on their wit and intelligence and instead must rely on their sexual crudeness to shock audiences, then that isn't comic, it's tragic.

vicecreamsundae

red herring wrote: »

foul crude sexual unfunny humour

does not compute?!

nah, i see what you're saying. personally i don't like when any female celebrity relies on their sexuality to sell themselves, but i definitely see a huge difference between a posed photo with a guy looking up her skirt and talking about sex in a graphic way during comedy sketches. i know in real life me and my female friends talk and joke about sex, so i don't see why a comedian shouldnt [in an even more crass way]. i certainly wouldn't consider it shock value -if people find it shocking it's only because they're not used to hearing women talk about that subject, but hey, sex happens. i don't think female comedians should shy away from talking about that stuff in favour of things more ladylike. though of course you can be witty and hilarious without talking about sex as well.

speedboatchase

phasers wrote: »

Women are awful stand up comedians imo, the only one I even remotely like is Joan Rivers.

Writing on the other hand has a good few funny women, like Jennifer Saunders and Tina Fey.

This, pretty much. There isn't a single female stand-up I enjoy, or can even recall enjoying compared to who I like watching (Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Jimmy Carr, Dara O'Briain, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Lewis CK, George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Simon Amstell, Demetri Martin, Ricky Gervais, Frankie Boyle). Sarah Silverman has her moments but as fair as stand-up goes the gulf is enormous

In terms of writing, I do believe Tina Fey is one of the funniest people in the world and her writing is amazingly sharp - right now she's fairly untouchable. Perhaps there's a lot better female writers out there right now but I'm not too familiar of either, male or female

In real life and facebook etc, I'd say my guy friends would probably just edge it, but some of my female friends are hysterical

Bottle_of_Smoke

Just one thing to remember comedians aren't neccesarily funny people

Ok that sounds insane but I mean naturally off the cuff sharp funny people.Comediansare simply people who can make up funny stories and have a good stage prescence. Even with stuff like mock the week its all previously thought up.

I think the best example of someone who's a comedian as well as being naturally funny is David Mitchell. If you watch him on comedy shows he's incredibly sharp and responds to things he couldn't have rehearsed. MOst of the others I doubt they'd strike you as a funny person any more than the average if you met them at a party/pub etc

Day to day "being funny" I can't say I notice any difference between men and women.

Kooli

I definitely think that growing up there is more pressure on lads to be funny. Even now groups of lads I know talk in so much 'banter', each trying to be funnier than the last, or setting up punchlines for each other. I feel completely out of my depth in these conversations because I have no practise at it! Bunches of girls when they get together tend to talk more straightforwardly, and are occassionally VERY funny but that's not the goal of the conversation.

As for the female comedian thing. I actually think that the whole 'periods and relationships' thing has become one of those things people still give out about, even though it hasn't been like that for years! I mean genuinely how often is there REALLY a period joke in a woman's routine? Occasionally, probably. But isn't there also period jokes (or PMS jokes) occassionally in men's routines too? And don't men also use relationships in their routines? And isn't it equally tiresome and predictable when they talk about their nagging girlfriends or wives?

I think people decide certain things in advance about female comedians, so if there is a joke that fits the mould they immediately pounce on it "See I knew they were rubbish and only talked about being single!"

And I'm actually going to defend Jo Brand. Yes, she initially made a career out of fat jokes which were mostly not that funny - BUT, when you see her on something like QI I think she comes across as genuinely witty!

Orla K

Kooli wrote: »

As for the female comedian thing. I actually think that the whole 'periods and relationships' thing has become one of those things people still give out about, even though it hasn't been like that for years! I mean genuinely how often is there REALLY a period joke in a woman's routine? Occasionally, probably. But isn't there also period jokes (or PMS jokes) occassionally in men's routines too? And don't men also use relationships in their routines? And isn't it equally tiresome and predictable when they talk about their nagging girlfriends or wives?

I think people decide certain things in advance about female comedians, so if there is a joke that fits the mould they immediately pounce on it "See I knew they were rubbish and only talked about being single!"

And I'm actually going to defend Jo Brand. Yes, she initially made a career out of fat jokes which were mostly not that funny - BUT, when you see her on something like QI I think she comes across as genuinely witty!

I completely agree with you on these points. I was in my brothers place and he had a thing on of comedians, there was one male comedian who is a big name(which I forget) and he was funny but he wasn't really funny. Then Jo Brand came on to which my brother said "oh she's not funny she just talks about being fat" The first thing she did joke about was being fat but it was mainly because she didn't make it to the stage, difficult steps, but then, she made a really funny joke my brother, his girlfriend and me all laughed. It was far better than the jokes of the comedian on just before who my brother things is brilliant.

I really do think alot of people give female comedians a harder time. They think along the lines of 'oh, well, we'll see is she funny' rather than what people do for guys 'oh great we'll see how funny this guy is'

liah

I doubt it has anything to do with men having a larger capacity for humour.

Men can get away with a lot, particularly in physical humour. Women just don't look "right" doing a lot of things, and imo, a lot of the time physical action has a lot to do with how convincing comedy comes across. And I'm not talking about physical comedy or anything like that, I'm talking about body language, small or large movements to enhance what the comedian is saying but that aren't the whole act, you know?

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that women often grow up to be quite a bit more controlled, focused on how they come across and how they look and in general are more conditioned to not put themselves out there, whereas men are raised completely to. Men grow up with lad's banter, constantly challenging each other to out-funny the next person, they get away with acting outlandishly or loudly for the sake of humour (can you imagine a female Will Ferrell?), it's just seen as more accepted for men to have a sense of humour.. in fact, most men are judged on how funny they are. Any girl will say the guy they're looking for must "have a sense of humour." Men with a sense of humour do better at most things. And men aren't afraid to challenge boundaries. They're encouraged to.

Women.. everything we do is societally driven. We care too much about how we're going to look/sound. We don't take criticism as a challenge as often as we take it to heart and let it bother us.

Basically, TL;DR: Women can be funny. A lot of women are very intelligent with excellent senses of humour. But they're not as confident or able to put themselves out there or get away with a lot that men can for a variety of reasons.

I don't know. It's kind of hard to explain, and I know I did a poor job of it there. I know what I'm talking about, and that's all that matters. :pac:

PK2008

Theres some funny comediennes alright, dont know her name but she's a geordie and was on 8 out of 10 cats once, very funny. One of her lines was that she was disappointed Cadbury's was bought by Kraft as she was worried they would stop making Dairymilk, her only source of calcium (obviously funnier coming from her)

But in general, no I dont think women are that funny, in fact I dont think they even try that much. With lads you're at least expected to get into banter and 'spar' a bit, obviously the funnier slaggings the better but I've never heard banter from a woman.

Do they even have banter with each other??

phasers

You're hanging out with the wrong women mate.

PK2008

phasers wrote: »

You're hanging out with the wrong women mate.

They're nice enough girls now, dont get me wrong and they would get the jokes and laugh and all but very little participation, they would rarely talk to the whole group, in the 'holding court' kind of way a lad would do when he's about to tell a funny story or come back with a slagging. They kind of have side discussions one to one, and tbh whenever Ive caught a bit of their conversations they tend to be fairly dull, kind of 'oh no way that happened to me too', 'I think thats lovely' stuff, you know 'nice' but like their talking to their ma's

ghostdog1

I find male comedians funnier, their take on life is funnier I think then woman's. Dillion Moran is brilliant!! There's some great comedic females as mentioned but I think woman are better in comedy films/sketch type roles or what have you then standing on a stage with a mike. I don't think you can really put Victoria Wood into the catagory of the likes of the women above either, she's just sits at a piano most of the time singing what she thinks are funny songs!!

Funkfield

I honestly do not think that women are as funny as men, in any situation. Be it real life, stand up or sketch show behaviour.

I know women are under-represented on the comedy scene but I think maybe eh..Jo Brand makes me laugh...occasionally. That is it.

My male friends crack me up on a regular basis but my female friends do not.

My girlfriend can reduce me to tears of laughter on a regular basis, and that is something quite unique. And one of the things I love the most about her.

Wibbs

Thinking on this a bit more, I reckon men and women can equally funny, but their crossover appeal varies. IE a funny woman will make other women crack up, but may be lost in translation for men. A funny man will make other men crack up, but is more likely to make women laugh too so he looks "funnier" overall.

Like I said I know women who are genuinely funny and humorous. Their sideways take on life is very sharp and just bloody funny. There are women posters here I find hilarious. No names no pack drill, but I will read their posts and smile and even god forgive me LOL. :D Read the bad relationship thread somewhere a few pages back and there are some serious gems in there. Indeed in that thread the funny women outnumber the funny men.

Abi

Wibbs wrote: »

Thinking on this a bit more, I reckon men and women can equally funny, but their crossover appeal varies. IE a funny woman will make other women crack up, but may be lost in translation for men. A funny man will make other men crack up, but is more likely to make women laugh too so he looks "funnier" overall.

Like I said I know women who are genuinely funny and humorous. Their sideways take on life is very sharp and just bloody funny. There are women posters here I find hilarious. No names no pack drill, but I will read their posts and smile and even god forgive me LOL. :D Read the bad relationship thread somewhere a few pages back and there are some serious gems in there. Indeed in that thread the funny women outnumber the funny men.

Nail on the head as usual there Wibbs. Tbh, theres only a handful of female posters that I find funny, but I admit its probably because their sense of humour / personality is not unlike my own. I rarely find women laugh out loud funny, but I think it says more about me than them tbh. I think I'm just wired differently. If I went out with a big group of guys and girls, by half way through the night I'd be sitting with all the lads messing around and laughing my head off :pac:

But as high-lighted above, there is a cross-over that occurs from time to time, and guy or girl I'd notice this fairly quickly and normally end up forming some of the closest bonds with.

Companero

are not usually as funny as men, though of course , individually I have met many women who are.

This is generally because women dont use humour to attract men, but many men use humour to attract women.

For most men, humour develops at an early age when we realise that if we're not good-looking, super-confident, or the captain of the football team, we can still make ourselves attractive to women and liked by men, by cracking jokes.

For women this is not an option: Their attractiveness to men is largley based on the shape of the bodies, and humour is largely exempt from consideration in this regard, except as a welcome bonus to some men.

In short: There are less funny women, cause women dont need humour to get a bloke, but most blokes do need humour to get a girl.

Kooli

Companero wrote: »

For women this is not an option: Their attractiveness to men is largley based on the shape of the bodies, and humour is largely exempt from consideration in this regard, except as a welcome bonus to some men.

I'd actually go further and say that if a man could choose between two women - one was really witty and funny, and the other wasn't really funny at all but found HIM hilarious - they'd pick number two!!

But I completely agree, there is much more incentive for guys to be funny than girls, it's just not as important for girls so they don't spend years honing their skills! So while many of us are naturally funny, we haven't developed that banter/hold-the-floor type delivery that marks out the 'funny one'.

Fago!

PK2008 wrote: »

Theres some funny comediennes alright, dont know her name but she's a geordie and was on 8 out of 10 cats once, very funny. One of her lines was that she was disappointed Cadbury's was bought by Kraft as she was worried they would stop making Dairymilk, her only source of calcium (obviously funnier coming from her)

Sarah Millican is who you're thinking of! She's great.

Women are funny. DAMN funny. I know many many funny wimminz. But professional girl comediennes aren't funny. Jo Brand is quite funny when she's not harking on about her husband or swearing (I don't like blue comedy) and Sarah Millican as said above. Sarah Silverman sucks, Maeve Higgins sucks.... They try too hard.

Dudess

I liked the sound of Sarah Silverman so I watched an episode of her sitcom...

Jesus Christ... Embarrassing.

Smallbit

I fully admit I find male comedians far funnier than the few female comics I like. My greatest comedy disappointments were people like Maeve Higgins (funny on TV, but not standup) and Deirdre O'Kane.

I love comedy, and my partner's ability to bring tears to my eyes was a major factor in us getting together, but maybe it's as simple as this; Men try harder to be funny.

Men seem to use humour far more as a 'social lubricant' or to impress other men. Women can be equally witty and humourous, but in my experience they have fewer good lines because they don't try so hard. Having said that, I think women are stronger in writing narrative comedy than standup sets.

Maybe Wibbs has a point about the crossover appeal of certain types of comedy too. The only time I find myself laughing and himself looking perplexed is when there's a female comedian on...

Howard the Duck

I like Sarah Silverman's standup but not her series but the best Female comedian has to be Maria Bamford she is fecking hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCliYhFqC0g

BumbleB

Some dublin women are absolutely hilarious. The wit just flows from them.these are the ones who aren't wrapped up in their appearance and some of them are very attractive.One of the funniest girls I know is the spit of a young pammy Anderson. She's from Finglas and she tells us stories of sday to day stuff.

Dudess

Jo Brand on TV at the moment - launched straight into the "I'm fat and seen as unattractive, and I'm middle-aged and on the verge of menopause - how hilarious am I?"

Then on to the man-hating... Time for new material after about two decades maybe?

Howard the Duck

Dudess wrote: »

Jo Brand on TV at the moment - launched straight into the "I'm fat and seen as unattractive, and I'm middle-aged and on the verge of menopause - how hilarious am I?"

Then on to the man-hating... Time for new material after about two decades maybe?

She was never funny and never will be. She's like a female Lenny Henry.

Rented Mule

Recently purchased a new car and it came with six months of free satellite radio. There are several comedy channels (out of 210), so I am drawm to them on a regular basis.

I recently discovered Kathleen Madigan's wealth of work on one of the channels. VERY funny woman. She has played the Kilkenny Comedy festival a few times over the years as well.

She is worth a listen.

Southsider1

Sally Lindsay (used be the barmaid in Corrie) is a hilarious comidienne. Saw her at the comedy club in Manchester one night. An excellent comic actress too - Phoenix Nights, Royle Family.

Dudess

Sally Phillips is quite funny. And French and Saunders have had their moments.

Walls

Of course women are funny, but many audiences are unable or unwilling to listen to them. A lot of women work as writers for the best comedy shows, like the Daily Show, Conan O'Brien. Personally, women stand up comedians are bloody essential, if only to counter the male view point.

Ms.Odgeynist

Walls wrote: »

Of course women are funny, but many audiences are unable or unwilling to listen to them. A lot of women work as writers for the best comedy shows, like the Daily Show, Conan O'Brien. Personally, women stand up comedians are bloody essential, if only to counter the male view point.

Hardly essential. I am not a scientist but there is undoubtedly something in the dna that prevents female stand up comedians from even approaching being funny. They just plain aren't! And bringing feminist nonsense into it doesn't help the cause. It just adds more baggage that provides even more blocks to being funny

Orla K

Ms.Odgeynist wrote: »

Hardly essential. I am not a scientist but there is undoubtedly something in the dna that prevents female stand up comedians from even approaching being funny. They just plain aren't! And bringing feminist nonsense into it doesn't help the cause. It just adds more baggage that provides even more blocks to being funny

So your theory is that there is 'undoubtedly something in the dna' I would agree more with walls and I think your post even shows that there is a negative view held on female comedians before they even set foot on stage (obvoiusly not held by everyone)

Ms.Odgeynist

Orla K wrote: »

So your theory is that there is 'undoubtedly something in the dna' I would agree more with walls and I think your post even shows that there is a negative view held on female comedians before they even set foot on stage (obvoiusly not held by everyone)

No. After they step foot on stage. The dna jibe was over the top, granted. But being a fan of both stand up comedy and of the female of the species, it seems to me that I can't recall a single instance of a funny female stand up. Undoubtedly there are funny actresses, genius female writers of comedy etc. But when it comes to stand up, there is simply no instance.

Orla K

Ms.Odgeynist wrote: »

No. After they step foot on stage. The dna jibe was over the top, granted. But being a fan of both stand up comedy and of the female of the species, it seems to me that I can't recall a single instance of a funny female stand up. Undoubtedly there are funny actresses, genius female writers of comedy etc. But when it comes to stand up, there is simply no instance.

Alright everyone seems to be talking about stand up comedy more than anything else and little mentioning of other comedy. I know stand up is popular now but it's only one part of comedy.
You may well be a fan of females but I would guess only at certain times. I'm curious to know if you find any of your female friends as funny as the guys or even just funny.

I have been avoiding naming any comedians but if you read the thread people do name ones that are liked and if you look at the videos in the op I'd be surprised if you didn't laugh.

I missed this bit the first time I read it

And bringing feminist nonsense into it doesn't help the cause. It just adds more baggage that provides even more blocks to being funny

your going to have to explain what the feminist nonsense is