[Vision2020] Say What?

[Tom Hansen]

Just to name a few, g . . .

Maryellen Hooper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TW4NSCxlLo

Kathy Griffin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9jHSp2mczI

Rita Rudner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS1tJ6UF0Kw

Aisha Tyler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGsH1zKo0iY

Judy Tenuta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ridwVQq4I

Pam Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZQ6K0DmaU

Kathleen Madigan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w5FIPR818k

Caroline Rhea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0jjPiueaI

Wendy Liebman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yV3VLep9tA

Elayne Boosler (my personal favorite)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVqemKhy8sE

Kate Clinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkRYC781zk

Danielle Broussard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0cYZVrkfeU

Sherry Davey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYN-B3YJhlc

Let me know if you want more.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho








> This comes as no surprise. There is a perfectly good reason that there are
> few female writers for most of these shows and that is because, for the
> most part, women are not particularly funny. A case in point would be one
> of the few shows in the last decade that does use a preponderance of
> female writers, Saturday Night Live. Hasn't been funny (read painfully
> unfunny) for about 10 years or so. Name an amusing female stand up comic
> working today. Lampinelli? Sykes? Silverman? Cho? Not a belly laugh
> amongst the lot. As with math skills and upper body strength this is
> simply an area in which the fairer sex is simply lacking. There are plenty
> of traits that women possess in spades and I'm not saying that the ladies
> can't occasionally understand and "get" a joke when they hear one but, for
> the most part, the ability to "be funny" is as rare in the human female as
> feathers on frogs.
>
> g
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:36 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
>
>
>> "At this moment, there are more females serving on the United States
>> Supreme Court than there are writing for Late Show with David Letterman,
>> The Jay Leno Show, and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien combined. Out
>> of the 50 or so comedy writers working on these programs, exactly zero
>> are
>> women. It would be funny if it weren't true."
>>
>> - Nell Scovell, former writer for David Letterman
>>
>>
>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
>> change
>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>
>> - Unknown
>>
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