Why are there no funny female comedians?
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Kathleen Madigan- I enjoy her comedy immensely....Quite funny, just with her voice and the nerdy topics she covers......
Humour is all very interwoven with hormones and things, humour is just another mating call in the grand scheme of things, simply one everybody can enjoy, thus men are predminantly drawn to practice it.
So true. About the only female comediens I ever found truly funny were Lucy Ball and Gracie Allen. Now they were funny.sneakypenguin said:
Female comedians are funny, some people don't find it 'feminine' when they talk about their vaginas on stage. The majority of female comedians which I've seen have done just that.
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Based on the Youtube footage I poured over, you are a fan of comedians who point out the absurdity of everyday familiarities, as well as people playing funny characters and impressionist-based caricatures of celebrities and/or everyday people, to complete your humor aesthetic circle. You apparently are not a fan of those who replace the insight, intelligent language and resulting humor of exposing everyday ridiculousness with anger and unnecessary volume (Sam Kinison started that journey, and Dane Cook crashed it into a tree...). If I were to hazard a guess, Patton Oswalt doing his impression of Master Shake doing his Vegas night club stand-up act while under the influence of the hypno-germ (I forget what season, go look it up) would be right up your alley. Most of your humor base also tends to toy slightly with putting a surreal face on everyday interaction with the world. Most of their experimentation in this realm tends to follow the typical route of personifying animals or things and making jokes about the thing that can't act human and the behavior the thing would exhibit if it could act human. And lastly, the comedians you mentioned talk quite a bit about things I'm guessing that you yourself are more familiar with, and can better relate to. You like laughing at what you know.PatientGrasshopper said:
Me? I like comedians who can tell a good story, especially when the story is based on a very surreal premise. I'm an even bigger fan of those who can simply [a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/"]ride a good story[/a] while pointing out sights of interest that may or may not actually exist. Bill Hicks is an example of one of my premise riding heroes, even if he tended to stick closer to the real world. Bill Cosby's material is legendary for his ability to take a 40 second event from his life, turn it into a 45 minute story and jump back and forth over the barrier of surreality as he exaggerates the thoughts and personal histories of every person and object involved. George Carlin was the ultimate hippie, taking common examples of everyday-level everything and running it through that post-acid theoretical filter of his, and then straight into the part of your brain you didn't know you were using at the time.
To be honest, I can't think of any truly standout / uncommon female examples of your type of stand-up humor, and I can't really think of too many existing female examples of mine. But maybe this will help in starting the search...
Girl here! I prefer the English brand of comedy, I find it alot more random. And to be honest most female Australian comedians annoy me because it's mostly about their kids or annoying things that men do, there isn't too much variety. I'm sure there are exceptions though, but I'm yet to find any.
There's usually a strong element of aggression in the humor in stand-up comedy.
That makes it more of a "masculine" thing, in the sense that it's closer to stereotypically masculine modes of self-expression than stereotypically feminine modes of self-expression.
Therefore, it's likely that more men will do stand-up comedy than women.
There are still quite a few female comics around.
Also, I'm pretty sad that nobody has mentioned Maria Bamford yet.
-- Alex
That makes it more of a "masculine" thing, in the sense that it's closer to stereotypically masculine modes of self-expression than stereotypically feminine modes of self-expression.
Therefore, it's likely that more men will do stand-up comedy than women.
There are still quite a few female comics around.
Also, I'm pretty sad that nobody has mentioned Maria Bamford yet.
-- Alex
Female comedians have been around for years. Myra sybil? Victoria Wood? Hattie Hayridge? Jo Brand? Most if not all have been around since or even before the 80s doing their thing in the UK, all to a high standard.
Then of course there are the women who have been forced to pretend they are men for years. Eddie Izzard anyone?
Then of course there are the women who have been forced to pretend they are men for years. Eddie Izzard anyone?
Mock the Week has a few funny female comedians, just not that *fat black woman*, she is boring.
*I say this because her name eludes me, and they have had a fair few fat people.
*I say this because her name eludes me, and they have had a fair few fat people.
I gotta agree with you. I have lots of favoriate movies that have funny female characters, but for the life of me I cant think of a stand up show monolog that has a female character. Granted I grew up on the Showtime Half Hour special and the Eddie Murphy specials waaaay back when he used to have an edge and was funny.doxcology said:
