without them, employers just wouldn't know who to give the smaller paychecks to. so i came along in 73 and started to reflect the times i lived in. women were starting to work. the pill was here. single women were starting to have sex. you weren't labeled anymore. they think we're dumb, so they put too many directions on the products. like in the home pregnancy test. it says for use in the privacy of your own home. oh, good. i was going to drive to a crowded shopping center that was a little threatening to some men in the audience and even for some club owners, everyone in the business tried to talk me out of it. can't be pretty and do comedy. you can't do it. and my best line in those years was, i'm just a human being trapped in a woman's body. and i really believe that summed up my approach to comedy way back when, when i started doing comedy in 1979, there were only six female comedians working on the circuit, only six. and it was really odd. we didn't know each other because the club owners would never book us together because it was such a rarity to have a female comic to