that chicks aren t funny. i hate to tell you it s still very much a thing. there are some people that can t get their heads around what they don t know. i said i wanted to be a comedian, she said. maybe it s better if you just die. i think they thought of women as a different species. very few ladies are capable of being a comedian. and so everybody sits right up. here s somebody that thinks she can do it. great argument that women are doing much better work than that. you re welcome. what s the hardest part? about being a female comedian. what is it? what s the hardest part? like, what would you guess? well, it s the rape. i have a deep camaraderie with tough hardcore funny as comedians because it s been a long road for all of us. what would make a woman turn from some decent thing like housewife ingle cash shearing in a private school or dental hygiene and turned her to comedy as as a career. it s definitely easier for us now because we pushed our way in. but back then ther
the tables have turned. the idea that jokes aren t funny, it s still very much a thing. there are some people who can t get their heads around what they don t know. i said i wanted to be a comedian, she said, maybe it s better if you just died. i think they thought of women as a different species. for view ladies are capable of being a comedian, so everybody sticks by them. here s somebody that thinks they do it. this is a great argument that women are doing much better work than men. you re welcome. when was the hardest what s the hardest part about being a female comedian? what would you guess? well, it s the rape. [ laughter ] i have a deep camaraderie with tough, hard core, funny ass female comedian apps because it s been a long road for all of us. what would make a woman turn from a decent think like housewiving or cashiering in a five and dime store or dental hygiene? and turn her to comedy as a korea? it s definitely easier now. but back the
stream of consciousness that really caught on with audiences and created its whole new wave of comedians and women comedians. this alternative comedy scene was happening alongside the rise of women at saturday night live. mary. mary star, mary stockley. you had molly shannon on simmer down now and you had cheri oteri, ana gasteyer yeah, i think we both assumed and i think wrongfully, that a baker of your generation might tend towards a more dry or crusty muffin. and then tina fey was brought on as a writer, 25 plus years of saturday night live. you are the first female male head writer i heard. oh, that place is a boys club. it s horrible. it s horrible. and when i got there, my experience was that it was not that bad. i think i ve been very lucky to get to places kind of as they they change. i quit being head writer. we all sat in the room. i go, clearly it s tina fey who should succeed me. and everyone went, yep, we all knew tina was
sorry. that s another party. these were people that didn t have as much success in mainstream clubs because mainstream clubs had mainstream comedy. they didn t necessarily go for weird. so they started their own rooms with their own crowds. i m not telling the story for any kind of shock value or anything like that. i m just telling the story. the original standup from the late 70s was all set up punchline set up punchline. that s all anybody was doing. and the alternative comedy scene suddenly was all this personal story telling. there s five kids in our family. i m the oldest and my brother who s the fourth child, got limp cancer. hold for laughs and you could just be talking about what happened that day. it was like somebody coming up and reading their diary. i m sorry, i didn t study theater for 12 years, just so i could go ramble. no we kind of free formed it and more of a
clubs because mainstream clubs had mainstream comedy. they didn t necessarily go for weird , so they started their own rooms with their own crowds, killing the story for any kind of shock value or anything like that. i m just telling the story. the original stand up from the late seventies was all set up, punchline set up punchline. that s all anybody was doing, and the alternative comedy scene suddenly was all this personal story telling her family. i m the oldest and my brother who s the fourth child, um, got lymph cancer hold for laughs. you could just be talking about what happened that day. it was like somebody coming up and reading their diary. i m sorry i didn t study theater for 12 years just so i could go rambo. no. kind of free formed it and more of a stream of consciousness. matt really caught on with audiences and created its whole new wave of comedians and women comedians.