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They just don't come off as sincere in their attempts imo. It just seems unnatural. Amy Schumer is the only female standup I've ever found funny tbh. The only female character in a sitcom I've genuinely enjoyed is Dee from Always Sunny.
Can somebody please explain this phenomenon? You'd be hard-pressed to count on one-hand the # of genuinely funny comediennes over the years. Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Whitney mings, etc etc. Just terrible and makes me nauseous whenever I see an ad or promo with them in it. To be fair those Will Ferrell Truck commercials are atrocious too, but he was at least pretty funny at one point in his life.
They just don't come off as sincere in their attempts imo. It just seems unnatural. Amy Schumer is the only female standup I've ever found funny tbh. The only female character in a sitcom I've genuinely enjoyed is Dee from Always Sunny.
sense of humor is contingent on great intelligence which no woman has (except one woman whose name is Scarlett Johansson though)
Females in general are not funny, more serious in everything school, work etc. They seldom ever rock the boat and get out of line. Very few ever got into trouble in all the school years I had.
es are severely lacking in creativity that's all. They're more serious and more careful with school and work, yes, because they don't have much else to care about, or to be more accurate they don't have that much brain to think about anything beyond what they're asked to do, imho. My goddess is an exception though, as usual.
I've heard that Margaret Cho is funny. I just haven't watched her standup myself.
Kathleen Madigan is pretty funny, imo
the fact is men don't need them es to be funny, instead we want them to be pretty and lovely, tbh
I don't believe the ratio of funny to unfunny is very good comedy-wise in either gender, but the networks have been handing out too many development deals to women simply b/c they are women in the last 5 years or so.
I think one of the main problems is the blurred line between actual comedians and comedic actors---they are 2 different things. Of the women listed on the OP, I've only ever known of Whitney mings to do a 100% straight standup routine (and it was a little funny); the other 3 are pretty talented comedy writers, but when they write something and then act it out, it gets lost in their interpretation by the character they are playing. The true standup comedy women like Kathy Griffin (don't flame me she was the only one I could think of) are really pretty funny, but when they try to play a funny role it's a hit or miss type thing because they aren't really actors. But it's the same with men.
For a man to find a woman funny, she has to say things he can relate to. In order to do that she has to step out of her world and pretend to know his, and that's probably not easy to do. Likewise though, lots of women don't find the Three Stooges funny.
I've seen funny females though. I just don't think women are as apt to stand around telling jokes to other women as men are to other men, since women in groups talk about other women or themselves. Guys tend to talk about events or things in general. That being the case, there's no real development area for them. I'm amazed any of them can swing it.
schumer and silverman are funny
Kristan Schaal, and that's about it.
People love to jock Maria Bamford, but she's just not funny. All the rest mentioned are ing atrocious.
Carol Burnet was pretty damn funny.
So was Gilda Radner, Gracie Allen, and Lucille Ball to name a few.
It's Louie CK alone at the top in the world of comedy. Everybody else is a very distant second.
lol Truth.
You're either (1) listening to the wrong comedians or (2) the more likely scenario upset because they tell small jokes
I like her too:
@ the 2:45 min mark
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Hannibal and John Mulaney are nice, tbh..
Louis himself said that Hannibal is his favourite comedian ATM, tbh..
I liked Bill Burr's last special more than Louis CK's, but they were both great. Good time for stand up right now, the networks don't really have the power and comedians can self publish and build their audiences through podcasts and not have to cut their act for TV.
Rosanne Barr is one of the funniest stand ups I've ever heard. But I never saw her tv series so I don't know if her humor transferred to the small screen; I suspect not, since her act was so raunchy.
Patton Oswalt and David Cross, tbh.
Anthony Jesselnik's standup (not the show) is pretty ing amazing too.
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