Why are there no funny female comedians?

[demoman_chaos]

Paula Poundstone is quite funny. No dirty humor or things only women will understand.

 

[Hollock]

the problem is that 1/2 the women who do comedy feel that they have to do comedy specifically for women, and of the other half, only 1/4 of them are funny. It's tough to be a lady comedian

 

[s0denone]

Because most women will willingly watch a male comedian, but some men are too stubborn to enjoy a female's comedy. ...well thats 1 theory at least.

You didn't write in purple. Mr. Purple fail. You have disappointed the wolf.

OT:
Female stand-ups are increidbly bitter because they were the one everyone shat on in highschool, and they just ***** and ***** and *****. Sometimes they throw in a little moaning that isn't imitation of sex, but only rarely.

I don't know why... To be completely honest, I don't think women are that funny. I mean, in a stand-up comedian sort of way.

 

[CK76]

I think whenever a woman makes jokes about being a woman it's going to alienate guys who for natural reasons cannot recognize themselves in the jokes. But apart from that, I dunno.

I'd agree with this. Same reason comedians who rely on unique cultural upbringings struggle to appeal to me.

 

[Mr. Purple]

Because most women will willingly watch a male comedian, but some men are too stubborn to enjoy a female's comedy. ...well thats 1 theory at least.

You didn't write in purple. Mr. Purple fail. You have disappointed the wolf.

OT:
Female stand-ups are increidbly bitter because they were the one everyone shat on in highschool, and they just ***** and ***** and *****. Sometimes they throw in a little moaning that isn't imitation of sex, but only rarely.

I don't know why... To be completely honest, I don't think women are that funny. I mean, in a stand-up comedian sort of way.

<color=purple> 1: I don't know if you just said that at random and it was weirdly accurate seeing as I do type in purple, or if you actually noticed that I post semi-regularly on The Escapist and always type in purple. Either way bravo.
2: I do believe that I posted this while my username was Lil_Hank93. And it would have been absurd if I typed in purple then.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I think as some people above have noticed, we're getting to a new era where women are being just comedians, instead of female comedians...leaving behind the 'I'm a woman and here's my women's viewpoint on everything', and just being someone who says funny stuff on stage.

Not that I'm saying you can't do female stuff as a woman, or black stuff as a black person, but you get Gina Yashere who seems to base her whole act on being either black or a woman, and it gets tiresome. If you look at Stephen K Amos or Reginald D Hunter, sure they do material about being black, but they have a much wider scope too.

Sarah Millican I think is a great example of doing the woman's viewpoint well however.

 

[PatientGrasshopper]

I have recently noticed something else similar, there are no female rappers, but I am not really a fan of rap anyway.

That... Is an interesting point...
Which I don't have a non-sexist answer for...

Is the fear of getting banned holding you back?

(It's nice to see this thread going strong after I created it over a year and a half ago, to tell you the truth I had actually lost interest in it, but I am glad someone kept it going.)