Keep it coming Alfred, your posts are perfect examples for my new blog entry.
You clearly know absolutely nothing about the subject, so you an ever more perfect example.
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And you are proving the point that female standups are obsessed with your 'agenda' and are anything but unisex and universal. Morning.
What agenda? To try to make a career doing something I love without having to put up with people like you saying I can't be as good or as universally accepted as a man?
You're proving my point that you're an idiot.
Ah how wonderfully bracing, the arrogance of youth.
Generally not so. You have just managed to get my hackles right up. And it usually takes a lot. So well done.
Marc, that's made it a hundred times worse.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ November 22 2010, 10:16 AM GMTGenerally not so. You have just managed to get my hackles right up. And it usually takes a lot. So well done.
Nat Alfred is actually Hitlers brain preserved in a jar, doing a million year sentence in an Israeli jail
I think he's entitled to be kranky
Quote: Marc P @ November 22 2010, 10:21 AM GMTNow, now children.
Nat, I wish you every success in your career, natch, I love passion and desire too, but I think you'd have found it pretty impossible 30 years ago. What's given a chance to young female standups like yourself now is the very success of gender specific female comedy - this cannot be in question, there has been so much journalism written on it, I do not have to be a devotee myself to know the facts.
If you manage to become universal and appeal as much to male audiences as female then you will have turned it on its head and you will be far bigger than Ms Millican. Good luck in that.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 22 2010, 10:32 AM GMTNat, I wish you every success in your career, natch, I love passion and desire too, but I think you'd have found it pretty impossible 30 years ago. What's given a chance to young female standups like yourself now is the very success of gender specific female comedy - this cannot be in question, there has been so much journalism written on it, I do not have to be a devotee myself to know the facts.
If you manage to become universal and appeal as much to male audiences as female then you will have turned it on its head and you will be far bigger than Ms Millican. Good luck in that.
I never realised Gracy Fields, Lucille Ball, Hattie Jacques etc etc were gender-specific comediennes.
You're starting to sound like a confused lesbian.
And you're mistaking lack of opportunity for lack of talent.
Quote: Tony Cowards @ November 22 2010, 9:48 AM GMTReally?
Yeah, she's not for me.
Having said that: I've always enjoyed her performances as Velma, in the Scooby-Doo cartoon.
We're talking about modern standups, as well you know. That means anything after Victoria Wood, basically.
Like the royal executioner your splitting heirs
there have always been women who could be comedians but couldn't get a foot on the ladder
black people couldn't join golf clubs because they were bad golfers
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 22 2010, 9:52 AM GMTThere are not as many top female standups out there because women are simply not as universally funny!
So similarly, the reason there aren't many black or Asian politicians isn't because of any longstanding racism and exclusivity (that, given time will hopefully disappear), it must be because they universally aren't as capable!
Consider us edumacated.