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Post by ProjectError on Sept 24, 2019 3:17:20 GMT
She killed it! She was the best roaster other than Jeff Ross, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2019 5:14:17 GMT
Won't even dignify by watching
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Post by gameboy on Sept 24, 2019 5:31:00 GMT
I didn't know it was something which had to be proven. There are plenty of great female comedians.
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 24, 2019 6:49:22 GMT
Ill say this... she's not bad, but not really someone I would go out of my way to see at the end of the day. so if I have to put it in terms of stand up worth seeing and not worth seeing, I would have to go with 'not worth seeing'. but with that said... if I took a guess, she's probably on the better half of female stand up comedy as you can definitely be worse as I did not find it to be a chore to get through that 6 min video but at the same time I can't really see myself watching say 1 hour of her standing up there doing stuff like that. gameboyI think it's because as a general rule females tend not to be nearly as funny as the best guys doing standup. p.s. hell, even in terms of comedy movies that are lead by females about the only one that comes to mind worth mentioning for me is... The Heat (2013). |
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Post by gameboy on Sept 24, 2019 7:00:00 GMT
gameboy I think it's because as a general rule females tend not to be nearly as funny as the best guys doing standup. p.s. hell, even in terms of comedy movies that are lead by females about the only one that comes to mind worth mentioning for me is... The Heat (2013). Well, one of the all time comedy greats is Lucille Ball.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 24, 2019 18:30:58 GMT
This isn't exactly revelatory and Nikki Glaser is annoying anyway.
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 25, 2019 2:37:42 GMT
[quote author=" mslo79" source="/post/3259752/thread" ti[/quote]I think it's because as a general rule females tend not to be nearly as funny as the best guys doing standup. p.s. hell, even in terms of comedy movies that are lead by females about the only one that comes to mind worth mentioning for me is... The Heat (2013).[/quote] The general rule has been that male comedians are given more exposure than female comedians. The very first cast member to be hired for Saturday Night Live was Gilda Radner; Lorne Michaels knew she was great. But he had to give the male cast members most of the air time, because their egos couldn't handle giving equal time to the female members of the cast. So much of the early years consisted of Chevy Chase falling over himself and making faces behind people's backs, and John Belushi's tirades. Carol Burnett had one of the funniest, and last, of the classic TV variety shows. When a woman could push her way through the barrier of mediocre male comedians, it was clear that women could hold their own in comedy. Too often they were pushed aside by dog-in-the-manger types such as Bob Hope, whose later comedy "specials" were clumsily edited with footage of laughing audiences and awkward interactions with his co-stars and were just uncomfortable to watch. |
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Post by ProjectError on Sept 25, 2019 4:43:43 GMT
I didn't know it was something which had to be proven. There are plenty of great female comedians. Chevy Chase and John Belushi have said women can't be funny. And typically in the past, women imo could be funny, but they brought a different style of humor than men did: Tracy Ullman, Roseanne, Paula Poundstone. But this woman, she brings her a-game. She has the timing and delivery down just as a male pro. And she's pretty, too. Women couldn't be this vulgar in the old days, as it was considered unfeminine and unattractive. Not so much the case anymore.
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Post by ProjectError on Sept 25, 2019 4:46:44 GMT
This isn't exactly revelatory and Nikki Glaser is annoying anyway. She's a female Greg Giraldo. Amy Schumer was funny when she first started doing the roasts. Not so much anymore. Nikki's funnier than she was.
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Post by gameboy on Sept 25, 2019 4:51:45 GMT
I didn't know it was something which had to be proven. There are plenty of great female comedians. Chevy Chase and John Belushi have said women can't be funny. And typically in the past, women imo could be funny, but they brought a different style of humor than men did: Tracy Ullman, Roseanne, Paula Poundstone. But this woman, she brings her a-game. She has the timing and delivery down just as a male pro. And she's pretty, too. Women couldn't be this vulgar in the old days, as it was considered unfeminine and unattractive. Not so much the case anymore. Well you brought up another good example. I'm not a fan of Roseanne's style of humor enough to watch it. But she did have a very gritty white trash style which was poignant and well crafted. Hers is a great example of good feminine humor. Also you should watch old SCTV shows. Andrea Martin is hilarious. She would do Slavic women, retarded girls, Edith Prickly was also a great character of hers.
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Post by ProjectError on Sept 25, 2019 5:08:01 GMT
Chevy Chase and John Belushi have said women can't be funny. And typically in the past, women imo could be funny, but they brought a different style of humor than men did: Tracy Ullman, Roseanne, Paula Poundstone. But this woman, she brings her a-game. She has the timing and delivery down just as a male pro. And she's pretty, too. Women couldn't be this vulgar in the old days, as it was considered unfeminine and unattractive. Not so much the case anymore. Well you brought up another good example. I'm not a fan of Roseanne's style of humor enough to watch it. But she did have a very gritty white trash style which was poignant and well crafted. Hers is a great example of good feminine humor. Also you should watch old SCTV shows. Andrea Martin is hilarious. She would do Slavic women, retarded girls, Edith Prickly was also a great character of hers. I'm not saying it's not funny, I'm just not getting it. It's too clean. Way before my time lol. Like the Dean Martin roasts, the humor was funny for people in that time, but it goes over people's heads now. Lisa Lampinelli, Whitney Cummings, Jim Jeffries, and of course Louis CK, they're funny.
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Post by gameboy on Sept 25, 2019 5:14:47 GMT
Well you brought up another good example. I'm not a fan of Roseanne's style of humor enough to watch it. But she did have a very gritty white trash style which was poignant and well crafted. Hers is a great example of good feminine humor. Also you should watch old SCTV shows. Andrea Martin is hilarious. She would do Slavic women, retarded girls, Edith Prickly was also a great character of hers. I'm not saying it's not funny, I'm just not getting it. It's too clean. Way before my time lol. Like the Dean Martin roasts, the humor was funny for people in that time, but it goes over people's heads now. Lisa Lampinelli, Whitney Cummings, Jim Jeffries, and of course Louis CK, they're funny. I don't think anybody thinks Dean Martin is great comedy. He was Jerry Lewis's straight man. And Lewis was old school Jewish slapstick, like an ancient Adam Sandler. I hate that crap too. But Andrea Martin was from SCTV. That's the same troupe as John Candy. It was pretty bawdy stuff.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 25, 2019 18:34:27 GMT
Julia Lewis-Dreyfus is hilarious with her herky jerky dance number on that episode of Seinfeld...
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Post by gameboy on Sept 26, 2019 1:37:11 GMT
Julia Lewis-Dreyfus is hilarious with her herky jerky dance number on that episode of Seinfeld... I normally love Elaine but that dance was stupid and annoying, even painful to watch.
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Post by ProjectError on Sept 26, 2019 2:14:00 GMT
Humor that holds up is Abbott and Costello...Who's on First in ingenius...however some of their skits go on too long.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Sept 26, 2019 5:16:48 GMT
Haven't seen that video, but her "my vagina looks like a hastily packed suitcase" bit is one of the funniest similes I've heard from a comic.
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 26, 2019 7:04:39 GMT
marianne48That's fine and all and I get your basic point here. but at the end of the day... I can't be the only person who generally finds males more funny than females especially in more stand up comedy stuff, especially when you start getting into the top tier. NOTE: I know what one finds to be funny can vary quite a bit from person to person, but you get the gist. hell, even putting stand up comedy aside... when it comes to movies I am sure there are far more males that I find funny than female especially looking at more comedy oriented movies. sure, I am sure there is a fair amount of funny things said by females in random movies, but it's generally not in more straight comedy types of movies where there is a higher volume of funny stuff and is more in non-comedy movies with an occasional funny thing said. p.s. but in my mind, regardless of gender, there are not many straight comedies (or thereabouts) worth mentioning in general as the straight comedy types of movies tend to be a dime-a-dozen. but the ones that do stand out for me tend to be almost all male, or at least it's much harder to find comedies where there is no shared thing, like male+female co-lead kind of thing, but more strictly females only and the like for the lead or leads.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 26, 2019 18:45:06 GMT
Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Bea Arthur, Betty Davis, Goldie Hawn, Gilda Radner, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Mellisa McCarthy, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Kate McKinnnon...
All hilarious women. Its chauvinist nonsense to suggest women cant be funny.
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Post by loofapotato on Sept 27, 2019 4:38:55 GMT
No one mentioned Ali Wong. She's even funnier.
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Post by ericareneprice on Oct 1, 2019 12:52:06 GMT
She killed it! She was the best roaster other than Jeff Ross, of course. People underestimate her but Niki is one of the best roasters out there. |
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