Funny Women.

[NacMacFeegle]

Went to a comedy thing last night.

3 male comics, one woman.

The compere introduced her in a completely different way, (basically, warned the room that it was a woman, and that they needed to show RESPECT - fine, but the men didn't need that?) and the second the room realised she was a she, the atmosphere changed - became hostile.

She was excellent IMO, although the material was too clever for the audience (simply put, she had jokes about politics, the audience wanted knob gags and confirmation of prejudice)

I left with the thought that as a female, she needed to be twice as funny to get half of the laughs.

Started thinking about women in comedy in general, and the way they approach it - ~I think things have improved, but it is still a man's game.

What do you think? Is comedy more important to men? I would say the audience last night was 70/30 men to women. Is it easier for men to be funny? Do you think men are threatened by funny women?

it's a weird thing to have a gender divide in, IMO.

LMAO BTP!

Most of the men in the local now speak to me as an actual human person, rather than tits on legs, but it has taken extreme sarcasm and being called lots of names to get there.

One last week said I was "putting men off," I thought, first, GOOD, I don't want drunken tossers pawing at me, second, WTF, why would he assume I wanted to attract men? What FOR?

Philpert, I get what you mean, you don't sound bigheaded x

I am foul-mouthed and quick with the putdowns as well. Every now and then some bloke will tell me that I would attract more men if I could be a bit quieter and less scary. TO which my answer is always: why would I want to attract wankers?

BTW: an example of female non-stand-up humour that's not all about periods and willies can be found here - I recommend looking at a few different posts to get the full glorious madness.

Week past Sunday, we went to see a male GAY stand up at local theatre. He was brilliant, I was weak with laughter. Audience was approx. 75% female, 15% gay men, 10% straight men. What does that tell us?