To ask who are the modern day funny female comedian?

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My brother visited today and whilst flicking through my Netflix noticed that I had Joan Rivers on my to watch list. This led to a discussion on the lack of modern high profile/good female comedians about today. He basically said they were few and far between. I could only think of Jo Brand at the time but there must be more?? I was pissed off after he visited and wanted to forward some links of funny females but I can’t find many.....

Bridget Christie.
Angela Barnes is hilarious.

Mel Giedroyc
Sue Perkins

I always struggle with alot of female comedians as i find they always go for the rank vag jokes there are a few i find funny but that always puts me off

Kiri Pritchard McLean and Rachel Fairbourne are brilliant. Not mainstream but their podcast All Killa No Filla is fantastic. I actually prefer their anecdotes more than the crime stuff

Sharia Mitzi
Catherine Tate
Diane Morgan

Shazia Mirza (tut, flipping autocorrect)

When I worked in the industry I rapidly came to the conclusion that people who said they didn't find women funny... tended to say more about them than it did female comics.

Saw Sarah Millican last year and tbh her show was meh. She might have been pissed off because someone at the front took a photo of her and she gave them a good mouthful, but I didn't particularly find her that great.

Honestly, not many mainstream stand up comedians of either sex make me laugh.

Women who do make me laugh are Lauren Graham, Tina Fey, Kate McKinnon, Phoebe Waller Bridge and if i'm a silly mood with my feminist radar turned off, Miranda Hart. Most of those aren't 'proper' comedians I suppose.

Stand up or actors? Anyway, including as they’re comic writers as well as actors/stand ups
Joanna Scanlon
Vicki Pepperdine
Julia Davis
Holly Walsh

Any who have an act that isn’t the tired old tampon/fat/lazy husband routine on the one hand or lame some politics on the other. Oh and some originality (google the YouTube clip “Amy Schumer steals jokes”)

Oh gosh, forgot Mel and Sue! Sue, particularly just seems naturally witty in such a warm way. I luvs her.

And yy to Diane Morgan. Keep forgetting people

Diane Morgan is hilarious

Ali Wong, Amy Schumer, Katherine Ryan

Philomena Cunk is ace

So glad only 2 mentions for Mel and Sue, but none would have been better, they are just so lame.

Sarah Millican gets on my nerves with that whiney high pitched voice.
Miranda Hart--brilliant

Katherine Ryan, Aisling Bea, Susan Calman

There’s loads more!

Susie Essman is hilarious

Another vote for Deborah Frances-White. Hilarious.

I really like Roisin Conaty - she seems quite effortlessly funny whereas some other female comedians seem to be a bit too try hard and also over do it on the 'feminist comedy' as well.

I also quite like Ellie Taylor, she probably falls into the 'try hard' category but what I have seen is quite funny.

Katherine Ryan is quite funny as well.

Going to add Tiffany Stevenson, Rosie Jones & Felicity Ward to this list, great stand ups.

Podcasts for female comedy rather than TV, which is still stuck in its’ outdated ‘no more than one woman + one BAME’ formula when it comes to panel shows.

Kerry Godliman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Amy Schumer come to mind. Also Diane Morgan aka Philomena Kunk.

All of the above