Lots of Daytime Lady Love

Ellen Degeneres welcomed Margaret Cho on her show yesterday to discuss Margaret’s Beautiful tour - you can physically feel the lady love radiating from your monitor.

More Janeane? Yes, please!

Punchline Magazine’s blog reports Janeane Garofalo is working on a DVD in April! Unfortch for me, it’ll tape in Seattle, but New Yorkers can see Garofalo perform at Comix on April 4th and 5th. Janeane, j’taime.

Tina Fey: Creator of Woomba

Reader’s Digest has an interview up today with Ms. Tina Fey wherein she touches on the topic of male vs female humor and her mom as comic inspiration:
RD: What’s the difference between male and female comics?
Fey: Every comic way of writing is unique, but I think male comedy is more boisterous. Usually it involves robots […]

Fresh (Lady) Faces in New Places!

Recognize this face from the last few Saturday evenings?

NPR interviews Casey Wilson, the latest addition to the Saturday Night Live cast. Wilson recently came on board to the show from L.A. where she was a regular at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
She also explains the process of getting into SNL in this Defamer interview
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Be So Good No One Can Tell You No

Pop Matters has a twenty questions session up with Ms Margaret Cho and she’s as charming and insightful as usual.
7. You want to be remembered for?
Everything that I do. For being a great comic, for helping out younger comics, for being a good student of comedy, for being a great mentor of comedy. I would […]

Aisha Tyler on How to Break Into Comedy

I just stumbled across this blog post on Aisha Tyler’s MySpace page.  This is probably my favorite line:
“Great comedy is like that incredible conversation you had with your best friends in college, telling stories and drinking wine from a box until five o’clock in the morning, after which you made scrambled eggs and hot dogs […]

Are You an Estrogenius?

[ March 15, 2008; ] Calling all talented women performing artists! Submit to the…
2008 ESTROGENIUS FESTIVAL!

There are only 10 days left - March 15, 2008 is the deadline for:
*Short Plays (20 minutes & under)
*Sola Voce - Solo Shows (50 minutes & under)
*Directors for Short Plays
*Stage Managers for Each Week of the Short Plays, GirlPower & Sola Voce
*Lighting Designers for Each […]

Hysterical Woman of the Day - Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968) is a Korean-American comedian, fashion designer and actress. Cho is known for her stage performances, recordings, and concert movies. Her shows are a mixture of her comedy stylings with strong political and cultural commentary. Apart from these shows she has also directed and appeared in music videos, and started […]

Uppity

Katie Halper has a great post up at Take Part in response to yet more “Women Aren’t Funny” talk that appeared today on Gawker.
How is it that people don’t like this man? He’s so professh.

Broad Humor Submissions Open For Film Comedies By Women!

[ April 11, 2008; ] Los Angeles, CA (March 1, 2008) – The Broad Humor Film Festival opens its third year with a call for submissions of comedic films and screenplays written and directed by women.

FILM & SCREENPLAY CATEGORIES ARE ORGANIZED BY LENGTH:

Feature length - over 60 minutes ($45/$60 late deadline)
Medium length (including television/teleplay entries) - 20-60 minutes ($40/$50 late […]

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