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I LOVE Wanda Sykes.
Margaret Cho is okay. Amy Sedaris can be hilarious. And what's her face who used to be Andy's Sister Stacy on Conan O'Brien, oh man, did I love that bit. Everytime.

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 years ago) link

The first season of Strangers With Candy is out on dvd now! I just bought it this weekend and has helped fuel my Colbert obsession.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

all these "comedians" are so fucking dud.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

What about Carol Burnett?

― Mandee, Monday, 7 July 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

what's her face who used to be Andy's Sister Stacy on Conan O'Brien

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 years ago) link

Sarah Vowell?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Sandra Bernhard is funny and clever.

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

Women have saved SNL from the dumper.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

Molly Shannon, Julia Sweeney, Nora Dunn

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

SWOON

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

Wanda Sykes is about as edgy as a butter knife. Margaret Cho annoys me with her fag-hag dream world. Gay men are to her what unicorns are to 12-year-old girls. Everyone on Saturday Night Live is boring, predictable, and irritating. I don't mean to pick on the girls, either: comedy in general is in a sorry state. And stand up comedy needs to go away forever.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

Is Wanda supposed to be edgy?
She's just funny.
Yr line about gay men and unicorns proves that comedy isn't in as sorry a state as you say. You funny Kenan you.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

Expecting Wanda Sykes to be edgy is a non-starter unless you've got preconceived notions about her act based on her connection to Chris Rock.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

everyone is on telly too much = they stop being funny quicker

denise coffey

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

what if they did a Peep Show style thing but with two women in the lead roles...Tamsin Grieg and Sally Phillips? Maybe the lass from Man Stroke Woman (this looks quite good btw)...

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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we're not commissioning a pilot

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if I'm re-observing here.

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

going back to the Peep Show idea, you don't get enough female narration in comedy so that would be a nice novelty, coupled with the parent novelty of Peep Show itself (camera as eyes of the character). it's too bad the idea's already been done with two men as with women it could've been even all the more remarkable.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I know it's been said before on this thread, but there is a huge distinction between good comedic actors and good comedians. And while I could reel off a whole bunch of women who have impeccable comedic acting talent, I'd be struggling to name a handful of decent stand-up/sketch comediennes, certainly from the UK. In fact, past Jo Brand (who I have recently rediscovered as very funny due to her stints sitting in for Jonathan Ross on Radio Two) and Victoria Wood (blame my mum), I can't really think of any. Oh, Nina Conti was great the first time I saw her, but her schtick wore thin quite quickly.

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

Jenny Eclair = good comedienne. that accent helps. she's also quite good on radio from what i've heard (not much).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

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― _, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I forgot about Jenny Eclair. I saw her about ten/fifteen years ago and she was utterly appalling, relying on the shock factor of being vulgar rather than actualy being funny. However she seems to have matured into a genuinely funny person.

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.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Sandra Bee from the Daily Show doesn't make me laugh, but my friend Anna (who thinks SB is hilarious) does.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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― _, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Maria Bamford

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

It took me a few minutes to realize you didn't mean Ashley "what ever happened to..." Banfield.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

haha tichina arnold was the best thing about martin. her fights with martin are priceless. and maya rudolph is one of my favorite comedians on snl ever.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link

maya rudolph always plays the same "over singing " character. i mean she does it good but its totally played out by now.

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link

omg whatever did happen to ashleigh banfield?

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link

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