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
phyllis diller. i think when it came to women doing comedy certainly stand up. you had to dress in a way. that was crazy. you had to work within the confines of what guys wouldoing alright i ducked that in in the dressing room and tell out. basically saying, i m coming up on stage. don t look at me as women look at me as like a funny person just looking at the two outfits here moms and woody s. i would like to wear mom s and i d like to wear yours. moms mabley, who was a great comedian of the thirties and forties fifties didn t become known by white audiences until the sixties, when there were more black faces on tv acute i m liking young men. and i m guilty. she was
morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. listen to this. you ll have to my grandmother. she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. she s 97 today. we don t know where the hell she is. in the nineties club heyday . the clubs were so crowded because everybody in the world thought i m going to move to california or new york. i m going to do three funny minutes and then get my own sitcom like jerry seinfeld. that was the downside of that era really just didn t really have room for me or the likes of me who could start off the sex category. other than yes, you know it, miss kathy griffin. when you tell a story thanks on once before, only once before. it is not the time of midget. sorry. security people that didn t have as much success in mainstream
made saturday night live different from those other shows was our show was the first one to really have a voice for a younger generation man. team. that s disgusting screen and then he screams, and then it s over. the early days of snl word tale of two worlds because you have these great female writers like and beats and maryland miller and rosie sastre. but then you had, like john belushi didn t want to do sketches that were written by women. like sirloin steak. i like american food. don t push me curtain. i mean, it used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show because chicks just weren t funny. couldn t be worse. really enough to make you want to puke your guts out. it was up hill battle. lauren used to come around to me and rosie and go