That
place for grandmas and advertising, Facebook, is once again a-buzz with the
Women Aren't Funny schtick - well, as a-buzz as it can be between the
pay-to-win 'videogames' and iPad 'competitions'. This is quite obviously
hogcock. Women are funny. This is not a debate. However, if you were to point
this out even with a comment as innocuous as "What are you doing?" you’d
be shouted down with cries of "White Knight is gonna White-Knight" and demands to
name a funny woman.
Yeah well, here's fifty:
Lucille Ball
Katherine Parkinson
Olivia Colman
Carol Cleveland
Roseanne
Sarah Millican
Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders
Tina Fey
Julia Davis
Kitty Flanagan
Roz Hammond
Sue Perkins
Jo Brand
Betty White
Emma Thompson
Portia De Rossi
@Brocklesnitch
Judith Lucy
Lily Tomlin
Marieke Hardy
Katy Wix
Miranda Hart
Deanne Smith
Andrea Anders
Judy Greer
Connie Booth
Nina Conti
Nora Ephron
Cal Wilson
Tress MacNeille
Kat Stewart
Julia Zemiro
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Maria Bamford
Goldie Hawn
Shelley Long
Peri Gilpin
Megan Amram
Amii MacDonald
Jane Turner
Gina Riley
Lisa Kudrow
Shappi Khorsandi
Meera Syal
Jennifer Crittenden
Allison Janney
Hannah Gadsby
Kristen Schaal
Tamsin Greig
Helen Fielding
Mindy Kaling
Again, this is just off the top of my head. There are of course hundreds of other women who are professionally funny and to suggest otherwise is either incredibly disingenuous or unreasonably ignorant (there was a time when folks were rightfully ashamed to broadcast their ignorance. Sadly, that's gone the way of the dodo (or Google reader)). THERE ARE HUNDREDS of them. From all generations and in all genres. FFS some are the best in their field regardless of gender (Ball, MacNeille).
There are two kinds of men (and it is men) that think women are not funny: Those that opine that men are funnier than women then use this 'evidence' to extrapolate further to imply women aren't funny at all. Christopher Hitchens falls into this category. The other category isapes men who don't like women.
The first can be corrected - I mean that in a cruel Victorian posture teacher
kind of way, not a Nazi Germany way. The second group will eventually discover
fire and die out from smoke inhalation.
In this time of imdb, Wikipedia and YouTube there is no excuse to be ignorant of funny women. Here’s fifty to get you started.
Yeah well, here's fifty:
Lucille Ball
Katherine Parkinson
Olivia Colman
Carol Cleveland
Roseanne
Sarah Millican
Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders
Tina Fey
Julia Davis
Kitty Flanagan
Roz Hammond
Sue Perkins
Jo Brand
Betty White
Emma Thompson
Portia De Rossi
@Brocklesnitch
Judith Lucy
Lily Tomlin
Marieke Hardy
Katy Wix
Miranda Hart
Deanne Smith
Andrea Anders
Judy Greer
Connie Booth
Nina Conti
Nora Ephron
Cal Wilson
Tress MacNeille
Kat Stewart
Julia Zemiro
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Maria Bamford
Goldie Hawn
Shelley Long
Peri Gilpin
Megan Amram
Amii MacDonald
Jane Turner
Gina Riley
Lisa Kudrow
Shappi Khorsandi
Meera Syal
Jennifer Crittenden
Allison Janney
Hannah Gadsby
Kristen Schaal
Tamsin Greig
Helen Fielding
Mindy Kaling
Again, this is just off the top of my head. There are of course hundreds of other women who are professionally funny and to suggest otherwise is either incredibly disingenuous or unreasonably ignorant (there was a time when folks were rightfully ashamed to broadcast their ignorance. Sadly, that's gone the way of the dodo (or Google reader)). THERE ARE HUNDREDS of them. From all generations and in all genres. FFS some are the best in their field regardless of gender (Ball, MacNeille).
There are two kinds of men (and it is men) that think women are not funny: Those that opine that men are funnier than women then use this 'evidence' to extrapolate further to imply women aren't funny at all. Christopher Hitchens falls into this category. The other category is
In this time of imdb, Wikipedia and YouTube there is no excuse to be ignorant of funny women. Here’s fifty to get you started.
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