― 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
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― Saskia, Monday, 7 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― 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
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― 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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