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
we sat around and watched them melt. she was a very dominant voice at the time. you can find rolling stone covers where it was richard pryor, lily tomlin, most dangerous comedians doing the most dangerous stuff. they both immersed themselves in characters. the very first lily tomlin space station, nbc, 1974, they both won eddie awards. so did the emmy awards. so did loren mike else. and thanks to that he got the pilot for saturday night live. roseanne, roseanna-danna. where you get it and who milks the dogs and i don t care. hi. saturday night live definitely early on amazing that right out of the gate it was lorraine newman and jane curtain and gilda radner. candy? candy. they could definitely hang with the guys. they were just as important. they were hilarious. hey, stud muffins? want to make bouncy-bouncy?
puke your guts out. it was an uphill battle. loren used to come around and go, what have you got for the girls? we felt an obligation to cover them since the men didn t write that much for them. [ laughter ] but seriously. they started to write more for gilda because gilda was very outgoing. and she was a more of a proven laugh-getter. congratulations no! when i say gilda radner, my mind was blow. it was magnetic. she committed to it and wasn t afraid to not be dainty with her character work. what is that bewitching set you re wear scents you re weary? virginia techs vapo rub. there was never a moment when you thought these women don t deserve to be there. what do you say? wax build-up.