Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funny

[graywarrior]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I7izJggqCoA&feature=bz303


The Vanity Fair article

Queens of Comedy
Who Says Women Aren’t Funny?
by Alessandra Stanley April 2008

The idea that women aren’t funny—and which male said that?—seems pretty laughable these days. TV has unleashed a new generation of comediennes, who act, perform stand-up, write, and direct—dishing out the jokes with a side of sexy. Annie Leibovitz photographs a dozen of the wittiest dames in showbiz, from 30 Rock’s Tina Fey to Sarah Silverman, to S.N.L.’s current stars, while the author learns why the setup has changed.

There are people who lament that no women now are as funny as Carole Lombard or Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedies of Lubitsch, Sturges, and Hawks. They are missing the point: today’s comediennes are on television, where they are often responsible for their own material. Tina Fey, for instance. The former head writer of Saturday Night Live, who wrote the film Mean Girls before creating the sitcom 30 Rock, is one of the leading voices in a new generation of comediennes—women who not only play comic roles but also perform stand-up and write and direct comedy.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/funnygirls200804



I think I'm fucking hilarious, btw.

[devilgrrl]

1. Broads are funny.

And I'm one of those broads.



:silly:

[ananda]

2. Maybe he had an unfunny mother..

nt

[musette_sf]

3. note to Hitch:

bellicose bitter drunkards aren't funny. or fun at all, for that matter.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Me, I'm a freakin' scream

[bullimiami]

5. why does anyone employ that malicious alchoholic?

[stellanoir]

6. Humor is my religion.

I've accumulated some DUzy's to prove it too. How's that for clout? :)

So there.

[youthere]

7. Women: Hitchens Still a No-Talent Fuckwit

[MindPilot]

8. Got two words for ya Chris...

Carol Burnett.

[skypilot]

9. Hitchens is funny...

...in an unfunny kind of way. Can't stand that fucker.

[AlCzervik]

10. I really don't understand how he has avoided choking on his vomit in his sleep.

anyone else surprised we haven't seen that headline yet, i know i am.