Mar. 7th, 2008 07:59 am
funny women
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toastykittenVanity Fair has a feature on funny female comedians, and makes reference to Christopher Hitchens' stupid article on "Why Women Aren't Funny". That one article was pretty much why I stopped buying Vanity Fair. (Via. (Metafilter's consensus from the males is that it's because females talk about, you know, female stuff, and males never talk about just male stuff. They talk about general stuff! Like how they don't understand their girlfriends. That's totally universal!)
Anyway, I was glad to see Chelsea Handler on there. Her show, Chelsea Lately, which is on E! is really funny, especially when she has the little round-table in which they discuss the gossip of the day. It's always populated by people we've never heard of, but are mostly funny. Occasionally you'll get the one person who can't keep up, but that's pretty rare. I kind of wish it was an hour long show. The last show I watched had a segment which involved her playing tennis against her assistant Chuy, and when she serves, she hikes up her skirt and pulls out the tennis ball out of her underwear, which is stuffed! So low-grade, but so hilarious.
They also missed a couple people:
Mindy Kaling, who plays Kelly Kapoor on The Office. I myself can't really watch The Office that much, because it makes me cringe all the time, but I always like watching Kaling deliver her lines. She's also got a blog on things that she buys and is obsessed with.
Samantha Bee took a while to grow on me, as one of the only female correspondents on The Daily Show. But she is seriously made of awesome.
Aisha Tyler is brilliant, and one of the best guest reviewers on Ebert & Roeper. Plus, she loved Infernal Affairs, so that's awesome in and of itself. (She also brews her own beer.) I just wish she'd stop getting cast in sucky movies like Balls of Fury. I think she needs to write the female version of Harold and Kumar. :P
Anyway, I was glad to see Chelsea Handler on there. Her show, Chelsea Lately, which is on E! is really funny, especially when she has the little round-table in which they discuss the gossip of the day. It's always populated by people we've never heard of, but are mostly funny. Occasionally you'll get the one person who can't keep up, but that's pretty rare. I kind of wish it was an hour long show. The last show I watched had a segment which involved her playing tennis against her assistant Chuy, and when she serves, she hikes up her skirt and pulls out the tennis ball out of her underwear, which is stuffed! So low-grade, but so hilarious.
They also missed a couple people:
Mindy Kaling, who plays Kelly Kapoor on The Office. I myself can't really watch The Office that much, because it makes me cringe all the time, but I always like watching Kaling deliver her lines. She's also got a blog on things that she buys and is obsessed with.
Samantha Bee took a while to grow on me, as one of the only female correspondents on The Daily Show. But she is seriously made of awesome.
Aisha Tyler is brilliant, and one of the best guest reviewers on Ebert & Roeper. Plus, she loved Infernal Affairs, so that's awesome in and of itself. (She also brews her own beer.) I just wish she'd stop getting cast in sucky movies like Balls of Fury. I think she needs to write the female version of Harold and Kumar. :P
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