― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 July 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 5 July 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 5 July 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, people!
Jennifer Saunders... Julie Sawalha... sigh
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kikiru, Saturday, 5 July 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 July 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Strangers With Candy, which used to be on MTV. I don't know if it plays in reruns on any stations or not as I'm without cable.
― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 5 July 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 July 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 July 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://sctvguide.ca/features/lola78.jpg
But my favorites are probably Gilda Radner and Lily Tomlin.
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/5/1/80-1880.jpg
― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Elmo Oxygen (elmo oxygen), Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mandee, Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 6 July 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nellie (nellskies), Sunday, 6 July 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
marlene dietrich was an underrated comic actress.
― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 6 July 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― X, Sunday, 6 July 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 6 July 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 July 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't get how people think there is a problem with funny women being sexy. Obviously there is a whole range, but look back at the classic era of screwball comedies and the women were often the funniest characters, with the men often playing straight man. Bringing Up Baby is as good and high profile an example as any, I guess. If a modern example is wanted, UK viewers can watch Smack The Pony for some of the sexiest women on TV (I particularly love Sally Phillips). I do agree that there seems to be a weird attitude towards female comics, as if it isn't a properly feminine thing to be doing. This obviously needs opposing.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 July 2003 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― james (james), Monday, 7 July 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 July 2003 10:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
The women of Newsradio were all very funny, though most of them are now doing ER. Which is, from the brief glimpses, quite humourless.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mandee, Monday, 7 July 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Amy Poehler. Now on SNL.
Funny women also seem to succeed in character sketches = Tracy Ullman, Carol Burnett.
(xpost with Mandee!)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Saskia, Monday, 7 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
denise coffey
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
we're not commissioning a pilot
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I think the problem with a lot of women in comedy is they're either used as the "straight" characters (viz: Quentin & Ash to Cloones & Morissey), or the comedy revolves around women's issues (endless jokes about tampons and dieting). I think the only show that managed to avoid this was Smack The Poney. But despite it's much touted all-female cast, many of the sketches could have been done by men or a mixed cast.
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Catherine Tate, Meera Syal, can't even think of any more, NOT FUNNY. Oh, yes, French and Saunders. Very much not funny.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: Gina Yashere. Also Josie Lawrence (from the Emma Thompson/Catherine Tate/Tracy Ullman school of sketch-show smugness), that crap woman (Jenny Ross?) who used to be on the Sunday Show.
People who have intermittently made me laugh: Mel and Sue, Rhona Cameron, Donna McPhail, Hattie Hayridge
Honourable mention: Liza Tarbuck. I was trying to think of women who have appeared on Have I Got News For You or QI as the benchmark (that's appeared in the guise of professional funnyperson rather than being a guest who happens to be amusing) and apart from Jo Brand, Liza Tarbuck was the only one I could think of who I could actually put my hand on my heart and say that they made me laugh.
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