(May 5, 2014 at 4:24 am)Esquilax Wrote: That's a pretty subjective claim to be making, on a lot of different counts. Humor itself is entirely subjective, so I'm not going to sit here and tell you you're wrong for having that opinion, though I will say that your opinion of whatever female comics you've been exposed to (hopefully!) wasn't soured because they were women, right?
No, I didn't enter the comedy business immediately thinking women suck at being funny. Few women enter stand up to begin with, and a lot of them leave because comics are dirty, vulgar, and cruel. I'm a fat guy and trust me I am made aware of it whenever I go into the green room. Do you know how many fat jokes I get a night, how many times I've been called a shit hack, and I don't mind because a lot of the time it's funny. But a lot of women don't want to be around that atmosphere. Like I said though, some thrive. I "met" Amy Schumer once and just like the guys were talking about fucking women and ripping on each other, Schumer talked about fucking guys and ripped on other comics too. And everyone had a good time.
And like I said, they're given many opportunities to make it in the business, usually earlier than most of the men in the business. I hear the same thing from the comics that come from other states and parts of the country. Exexcs, producers, and club owners all want women.
And besides, funny is funny. If funny comes out of a woman's mouth it doesn't make it less funny. It's just that funny comes out of women's mouths less often.
(May 5, 2014 at 4:24 am)Esquilax Wrote: No?
Ah good ole Hitchens, I gotta agree with pretty much everything he said. Women don't need to be funny, if they are funny it is generally because they want to be funny. But men do need to be funny. If you ask women what qualities they're looking for in a man, humor is amongst the top. We've been practicing being funny since we hit puberty. And practicing is the main word too, people think stand up comedians go on stage and just say some funny stuff because they're naturally funny. A stand up act requires testing out new material and the only way you can test material is to do it in front of a live audience. A stand up special is very well polished and made up of bits that the comedian tested and changed because his other jokes bombed at the other clubs.
But when I said people don't tell women comics they suck, I meant no one does it to their face. And this is because of a female privilege, where people are nicer to women. And like I said it ultimately works against them. You want more female comics, you gotta stop being extra nice to them.
