[Cincinnatus]

https://movies.yahoo.com/news/jerry-lewi...00608.html

Of course a bunch of screeching harpies are calling him a misogynist and blah blah fucking blah

[Tuthmosis]

So a LAAAADY! can be funny?

@1:02:

[The Lizard of Oz]

Dang -- the dude is 88 years old but they still can't write it off or let it slide. Apparently there is no age limitation on the need to get with the program. Even the Commies sometimes left true geezers alone to their unreconstructed antediluvian beliefs, but not here.

Of course his remarks are quite mild and gentlemanly. In reality, female comedians are never funny.

EDIT: I should qualify this by noting that old school comediennes and actresses like the ones he mentions could indeed be exquisitely funny in performing comic material (which is a real skill). But females have absolutely no ability to generate comedy, and of course today's female stand-up comedians are unspeakably terrible.

[Hotwheels]

I agree for the most part. He mentions Ball and Burnette, two old school female comedians, that I recall using a lot of self deprecating humor which a woman can pull off.

Hell, a broad dropping fuck in conversation is a turn off to me, let alone one trying to be funny in the same vein as a guy like Eddie Murphy.

[TigerMandingo]

A flicker of light in the Yahoo comment section:

Quote:

agreed, US women with each generation lose more decency trying to be like men and eliminate gender roles. foreign women seem to be a bit more traditional.

[Faust]

I think Mr. Lewis has it right. There's no reason women CAN'T be funny. The reason people tend to think women can't be good comedians is because we simply never see any. We see lazy, painfully unfunny women saying dirty words on stage, as if profanity equaled humor for anyone over the age of 13. But it didn't used to be this way, as another member... I'm afraid I forget who... pointed out to me a little while ago in a thread on a related topic.

I'd like to link two videos here. The first is a female comic from the 60s, 70s, and 80s called Phyllis Diller. Here she is rattling off 5 minutes of nonstop fat jokes, most of which any good red-piller would be proud to have in his arsenal.

In addition to the jokes themselves, note the effort Diller takes in her appearance and mannerisms. She's spent an immense amount of time to craft a unique persona that goes in line with the jokes she's telling. Her ridiculous flashy clothes, cigarette, the way she turns her head and uses her hands, it's all rehearsed to make her as funny as possible. She has a voice cadence very similar to a radio host; rising and falling, changing in pitch constantly to keep the audience interested.


Now here's Sarah Silverman, who is mentioned in the linked article by "A Jason Tabrys" as one of the funniest comics he's ever seen. This video is the second or third hit for "Sarah Silverman Standup" on youtube, and it's a routine she did at a TED Talk (Which is your first clue right there.)

Note first that she's wearing whatever random crap she threw on that day. Her voice is low and hesitant, almost as if she's scared to be there. Lots of "ummm" and "aaa". If you can stand to watch long enough, you'll see she eventually starts playing the guitar with a level of skill that's honestly embarrassing. Her "routine" is simply her saying things that she imagines would shock somebody, somewhere, who is probably a methodist minister from the 1830s.

Compare the first couple of sentences from each of their routines.
Diller: "And now the most horrible thing that could happen to our house is on its way: his mother is coming to visit. King Kong with an overnight bag. How can I describe her? Jello with a belt. When the old bat sits down, it takes five minutes to settle. (Burbling Jello Sounds)."

Silverman: "I am 39 years old, and I still wake up, every morning, so excited that I don't have to go to school. It's the little things. You have to appreciate the little things. And uh... one of those little things is... oh fuck... communication. (Nervous chuckle) Honest communication. It feels good to be honest."
And she goes on in that vein for a while, eventually getting to a punchline about her boyfriend spanking her.

And this is, as near as I can tell, the face of female comedy today. She's certainly the only one I've ever heard of. She's horrible. By any reasonable standard a giant vaudevillian cane should be stretching out from the curtains to drag her away.

But just because she isn't funny, and anybody like her isn't funny, doesn't mean that women can't be funny. It just means that an act that consists of nothing more than swear words and cheap titillation (and seriously, if you're getting your titillation from a 39-year old woman talking about her sex life, I need to introduce you to my good friend redtube) isn't comedy, can never be comedy, and SHOULD never be considered comedy. The fact that this woman, and anybody like her, is allowed within a 300 yard radius of a microphone is proof that our civilization is damned beyond redemption.

[Earth]

(04-13-2014 10:25 PM)Cunnilinguist Wrote:  

A flicker of light in the Yahoo comment section:

Quote:

agreed, US women with each generation lose more decency trying to be like men and eliminate gender roles. foreign women seem to be a bit more traditional.

[caracal]

The only female comic I can think of that I like is Dame Edna... and she's a dude.

[soup]

I think it would be fun to fuck one of the goofy sketch comedy chicks like any poehler.

Like Eddie Murpheysaid when he fucks funny women: "just keep tellin them jokes baby"

[Deluge]

This set is pretty funny, but I can imagine her shtick getting old fast.

[soup]

I used to think Silverman was funny before I started taking the redpill. She fails to make me laugh in that TED clip. The woke time I'm just thinking about how good a blow job she'd dive with those evil looking eyes.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

Po-faced American women (teachers, feminists, HR types) have spent the past 40 years telling men everything we once found funny is inappropriate to laugh at.

Now women want to be taken seriously as comedians and they're wondering why we don't find them funny.

You can't laugh along with a group of people who have spent decades pretty much banning laughter.

[Jeans]

Tina fey is really funny. Her humor is clean and frequently involves self deprecation, so it makes sense.

[Benoit]

I was listening to Black Phillip again this weekend.

Patrice was right when he said to a woman "You're not funny. You can't be. Nobody with self esteem can be truly funny"

[eradicator]

(04-13-2014 10:06 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

Dang -- the dude is 88 years old but they still can't write it off or let it slide. Apparently there is no age limitation on the need to get with the program. Even the Commies sometimes left true geezers alone to their unreconstructed antediluvian beliefs, but not here.

Of course his remarks are quite mild and gentlemanly. In reality, female comedians are never funny.

EDIT: I should qualify this by noting that old school comediennes and actresses like the ones he mentions could indeed be exquisitely funny in performing comic material (which is a real skill). But females have absolutely no ability to generate comedy, and of course today's female stand-up comedians are unspeakably terrible.

Glad you put in that edit. I was going to mention joan rivers, lucille ball, julia louis dryfuss. But they are all older than dirt.

[Cafe Mocha]

I tend to agree, I can't think of any specific women I've known or comedians I've seen that made me laugh as consistently or hard as their male counterparts.

I recently got turned onto Amy Schumer (Joe Rogan Experience) In my opinion her show "Inside Amy Schumer," is pretty consistently hilarious. It's a sketch comedy show with bits of stand up in between. I'm especially partial to the skits that involve satirizing female & male dynamics, which can be surprisingly accurate & funny at times. She mainly plays on the dumb entitled western cock carousel rider stereotype which I personally enjoy laughing at but, I could see how that might get old in an hour of stand up.

Ironically, the dud skits tend to be the ones involving solely female actors/comics.