Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The Last Laugh: Funnygirls Behaving Badly
Women in comedy have been behaving badly. Is belching and bed-hopping comedy progress or cheap raunch?
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Wordplay
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Last Laugh: Are Women Funnier?
And does it make men manxious?
A shift has been happening in the women in comedy zeitgeist over the last few weeks – a post-Bridesmaids shift that bodes well for women in comedy with fascinating repercussions for men.
Last time, I wrote about finally putting the tiresome “Girls Aren’t Funny” question to rest, and now that we’ve jumped that hurdle, the conversation is now shifting towards, “Are women funnier than men?”
A shift has been happening in the women in comedy zeitgeist over the last few weeks – a post-Bridesmaids shift that bodes well for women in comedy with fascinating repercussions for men.
Last time, I wrote about finally putting the tiresome “Girls Aren’t Funny” question to rest, and now that we’ve jumped that hurdle, the conversation is now shifting towards, “Are women funnier than men?”
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The Last Laugh: Girls Aren’t Funny?
Last week’s victory for overperformer Bridesmaids was sweetened this weekend when it had an impressive hold not seen since Wedding Crashers, dropping only 20 percent from its opening weekend box office.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
The Last Laugh: Chick Flicks Suck?
“CHICK FLICKS DON’T HAVE TO SUCK!”*
*WARNING: Despite the hot pink text, don’t be fooled – this marketing campaign is not for women.
Not to go all feminist on you, but it reminds me of how “feminist” has become a dirty word. To be a feminist means that you believe women should have equal rights to men. So in theory, anyone in America who isn’t a misogynist is a feminist. Yet this is a term women can be hesitant to identify with.
So is “chick flick” the new “feminist” of our lexicon?
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Monday, April 11, 2011
The Last Laugh: What Makes Girls Giggle?
Sugar and spice and everything nice…is not what a girl’s sense of humor is made of.
When the ladies of Comediva set out to build a comedy site for women, a natural question was, “What do girls think is funny?” What did our audience of comedivas out there want to see on a site made by them, for them?
“Funny is funny,” we’ve been told. If laughs reign supreme, then what’s funny to men versus women doesn’t matter. But is it a different experience to cater to a predominantly male audience versus a predominantly female audience? What makes girls laugh is what interested us.
When the ladies of Comediva set out to build a comedy site for women, a natural question was, “What do girls think is funny?” What did our audience of comedivas out there want to see on a site made by them, for them?
“Funny is funny,” we’ve been told. If laughs reign supreme, then what’s funny to men versus women doesn’t matter. But is it a different experience to cater to a predominantly male audience versus a predominantly female audience? What makes girls laugh is what interested us.
Published in
Wordplay
