Lots of Daytime Lady Love
Posted by Dianasaurus Rex March 21, 2008
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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!
Posted by Dianasaurus Rex March 21, 2008
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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
Posted by Dianasaurus Rex March 19, 2008
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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 and sharks and bears. Female comedy is more likely to be about the minutiae of human behavior and relationships.RD: Your mom was one of your comedy inspirations. Did you play to her at the dinner table?
Fey: My whole family played to each other. My mom’s a dry wit. Philadelphians have a smart-alecky humor. A college roommate from the South said, “How come when I ask someone in your family a question, they give a smart-aleck answer before the real one?” I think it’s the difference between the North and the South.
Fresh (Lady) Faces in New Places!
Posted by Dianasaurus Rex March 17, 2008
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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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MM: How did you wind up on SNL?
CW: I always wanted to be on the show since I was little and I couldn’t audition for the past couple years because I was under contract with other pilots and stuff. Basically I just said to my managers and agents that I really wanted to audition, and I admit that I had to say that a couple times (laughs) but, then I put together a tape. My roommate was very helpful. I just did a ten character tape… it was pretty low budg… I sent it in and I was waiting to hear, I heard they kind of liked it and I knew they were looking for women but the strike was going on so it was kind of weird timing. In December, they called and said Lorne [Michaels] wants to meet with you. In January, they flew me out for auditions. I was practicing at UCB, and I had kind of emailed with [cast members] Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig about kind of what it would be like. Amy is obviously the head of UCB and an idol of mine, essentially. Then, three weeks later, Lorne flew out to LA for something and he told me then.
More good news! The Daily Show has also added a sorely needed female face to their crew and it’s New York’s own Kristen Schaal!
Radar Online announced Schaal had “finally cracked the boys club” of The Daily Show, where the only other female holding it down is the hilarious Samantha Bee. Watch Schaal’s maiden voyage!
Looking forward to seeing lots more funny lady faces on my tube this year!
Be So Good No One Can Tell You No
Posted by Dianasaurus Rex March 15, 2008
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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 like to be remembered as someone who can really make others laugh.8. Of those who’ve come before, the most inspirational are?
Probably Madonna, then Björk, Roseanne, Rosie O’Donnell – they’re all very inspiring. They are all very different from one another, too. But they’re alike in that they’re true trailblazers.I live by a Madonna timeline. When she was on the Blonde Ambition tour, I was just getting started on touring myself. When she did Truth or Dare, I was coming into my own as a comedian. When she did the Sex book, I was starting to headline in Las Vegas. By the time Ray of Light came out, I was also getting inspiration from yoga and becoming a mother—a dog mother.
9. The creative masterpiece you wish bore your signature?
I really don’t know. I like my work best! But besides me, I think I would have liked to be as great of a comic as Richard Pryor. He was incredible.11. The best piece of advice you actually followed?
Be so good no one can tell you ‘no’.
Aisha Tyler on How to Break Into Comedy
Posted by carolyncastiglia March 12, 2008
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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 for breakfast and thought secretly to yourself that you had the coolest friends in the world.”
I totally had that exact experience in college! My 5th year (don’t ask… smoking too much pot followed by eating too many chicken finger subs does not leave one with much time to “study…”) a bunch of girls from the theatre department got together and started having “Ladies Night” at our house. I lived with two great girls, both of whom have since gone to Africa in the Peace Corps and are excellent musicians, and we wanted to create a vibe in which women could just get together and have fun - without the greater pressures of wanting to be cast and constantly trying to impress people. Out of those Ladies Nights, my first bit was born: a character I did called Lesbiana who is sort of a poor man’s version of the great Leibya Rogers, since I can’t actually play guitar. After that, I continued to pursue theatre, but I knew in my heart I wanted to do comedy. When I finally started doing stand-up it was the most freeing experience in the world. I had found my home… in a clown shoe. And I loved it!
I still sort of run one of those Ladies Nights today, now in the form of Chicks and Giggles. We will be having our last show at Ochi’s Lounge next Tuesday, March 18th, so be sure to come out! If you’re lucky, we might even make you scrambled eggs and hot dogs. But we will definitely make you laugh.
Are You an Estrogenius?
Posted by erink March 5, 2008
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| 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 Week of the Short Plays
*Sound Designers for Each Week of the Short Plays
*Set Designer for the Whole Festival
The Ninth Annual EstroGenius Festival will take place October 1 – November 1, 2008 at manhattantheatresource in Greenwich Village (177 MacDougal Street). Each year, the festival celebrates female creativity with short plays, solo shows, dance, visual art, performances by teens, music and Voices of Africa, our cross-cultural collaboration to raise awareness about the lives of girls in Niger.
Submission Guidelines are available here.
If you have any questions, contact estrogenius.festival@gmail.com
Hysterical Woman of the Day - Margaret Cho
Posted by Vicky Ayala March 5, 2008
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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 her own clothing line. She has frequently supported gay rights and identifies herself as bisexual, and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts.
In the past eight years she’s launched four sold-out national tours, turning each into a concert film. In 1999 her groundbreaking one-woman show, “I’m The One That I Want,” became a best selling book and a concert film. Her 2001 “Notorious C.H.O.” sold-out at Carnegie Hall, and in 2004, the CD of her “Revolution” tour was nominated for a Grammy. In 2005, Cho took her “Assassin” tour through the US, Canada and Australia.
Uppity
Posted by carolyncastiglia March 5, 2008
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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!
Posted by erink March 4, 2008
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| 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 deadline)
Shorts - under 20 minutes ($25/$40 late deadline)
The festival invites webisode entries this year as well. Submit compilations in the appropriate time category.
DEADLINES: April 11, 2008
Late: May 2, 2008
SUBMISSION FORMAT: DVD regions 1 or 0 (zero) - Films not in English must have English subtitles. More information and submission forms can be found on the Broad Humor Film Festival website at broadhumor.com.
ABOUT BROAD HUMOR: The Broad Humor Film Festival is the only festival to put the spotlight on comedies written and directed by women. The festival celebrates the funny side of women’s creative genius through screenings, readings and workshops. This year’s festival will take place June 13-15 at the Electric Lodge in Los Angeles. For more information contact: Kaat Cleenewerck, Associate Director kaat@broadhumor.com.
Women write. Women direct. Everybody laughs.
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