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
really not a housewife anymore. entertainer phyllis diller started comedy at 37 years old with five kids. she was cutting edge because she was doing something that no other woman had done before. i love to go to the doctor. well, would a man look at me and say, take off your clothes? those days. so much of comedy was just straight up sexist. my wife is a battle ax. phyllis diller switched it around now it was about her horrible husband thang. that s my husband. you went to the dentist the other day, the dentist times get the worst set of tooth whoever s on his life. for a woman to go on stage and complain about that it was emancipation in a way marriage counselor course. don t i have a sympathetic thing? your face has my sympathy. self deprecating woman was very popular in the comedy world. the shop where she s just had her head tarred and feathered. here is miss
in that came out of bridesmaids came out and it was like this is going to be the definitive answers to why women are funny. now i know women are funny for years because i have a vagina, but oh, my okay. no just hadn t made it to the big screen in the way that they did with bridesmaids happening. it s happening. it showed studios that you can make money with that, and it opened that genre of women behaving badly. officer donuts. don t you go back into your squad car and go save a kitten from a tree? because these pussies are doing flying. these women are so good. you cannot ignore them anymore. you want to stay with the best you ve ever had guy? you don t. that s a creepy guy. best sex that you ve ever had. guy is in jail. you know what i mean? yeah but i ve been thinking about maybe reaching out to him. there s a lot of creative freedom. that there s a lot of embracing of diversity in stories that haven t been told yet, so i think it s a great time to be a woman. what is those? what ar
because that was the first glimpse. we got. maybe that that was possible. it s not like there were plenty of career women on tv. women were mainly housewives in the sitcoms or they were secretaries and teachers. they weren t writers say that you d give up your job for us compared to you. i m a rut compared to a rat. you re a rat. my mother didn t want me to be funny because how was i going to get married and be funny at the same time? but here was rose marie. she was blonde and pretty and funny, and i kind of liked that idea. no i don t. don t bother to send it, mom. i don t think i m going to mexico after all. hang on a minute, aren t we? newsroom, mary. mary tyler moore show changed everything. they brought a lot of women into the business ready active. they wanted to make a truthful story about a single woman in her thirties, and i think that jim brooks and allan burns realized that if we want to have the
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