Schaal Strips for Feminism

There’s been a lot of talk about the misogyny Hillary Clinton has faced in the media these days, and last night on The Daily Show, Flight of the Conchord’sKristin Schaal decided to take a stand against it - by stripping.

Adorable!

Humor and Race

Hilarious comedian and ukulele enthusiast Jen Kwok turned me onto this great, low-budget documentary about race and humor. It’s insightful stuff, and a well-organized analysis of why some jokes about race are funny and thought-provoking, and others are just plain bullying.
Part One

Part Two

See the next two sections on WiscoStorm’s YouTube Channel.

That’s the Power of Pine-Sol, Baby!

Funny Girlz: A Smorgasborg of Women Comedians celebrated its 10th anniversary in San Francisco, Saturday (we admit the title took about ten years to roll off our tongues). Diana Amos (yes! the Pine-Sol lady!) joined Bay Area funny women for their Mother’s Day Eve show. Amos, who cut her teeth telling stories of […]

Here’s a Fey, There’s a Fey

Ooo, those glasses! That love of processed food! Decent gams! These days, a girl can’t walk down the street without seeing Tina Fey, hearing about Tina Fey, or dreamily thinking about Tina Fey. From the show to the movie, she’s the busiest lady in town these days and every fucking outlet […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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