Sarah Millican Page 4

No, with respect, that is a different argument, Ms Zooo.

And while there was definitely resistence in the early days of the big standup explosion from those old boys already banished from the new type of comedy, eg. Davidson, Manning etc etc, I don't think there were many at all, if any men on the new circuit who tried to block women standups coming through. On the contrary, they all went out of their way to be 'new manly' and liberal about it all, encouraging more women to join them in their trade and taking down the old walls and divisions.

But once up there, women will still encounter the odd hostile male who's maybe a failed comic and will want to give her stick. Hence the clever marketing of female standups to get more naturally female friendly women in, and then of course, the big realisation that there is big money in giving women what they want - material about themselves!

I am not being sexist, it's the way it is, women have always, naturually, exploted their femaleness! And why not? But it just means that standup comedy (not comedy per se, very different thing) is not universal across the sexes.

Quote: Nat Wicks @ November 22 2010, 11:44 AM GMT

Sorry

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I'll forgive you, Nat. After all we both have vaginas.

*does secret womens handshake*

Quote: zooo @ November 22 2010, 11:46 AM GMT

I'll forgive you, Nat. After all we both have vaginas.

*does secret womens handshake*

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Now Zooo are you being entirely honest there....

The ones I've glimpsed seem to yes, several go on about sex and toilet lids all the time in the way men just would not do. Jo Brand never stops going about food and size from a female perpective - no man doing those fat jokes all the time would get the same laughs from a male audience! Food and size and figure has become a female centric topic. That's the world we live in and it gives men and women standups specific sets of gender based material.

Toilet lids?

Quote: sootyj @ November 22 2010, 11:50 AM GMT

Now Zooo are you being entirely honest there....

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Very honest. While nasty misogynist Alfred is censored!

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 22 2010, 11:52 AM GMT

The ones I've glimpsed seem to yes, several go on about sex and toilet lids all the time in the way men just would not do. Jo Brand never stops going about food and size from a female perpective - no man doing those fat jokes all the time would get the same laughs from a male audience! Food and size and figure has become a female centric topic. That's the world we live in and it gives men and women standups specific sets of gender based material.

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I do and I get laughs

men!

(makes tiny cock gesture at Alfred)

Quote: Nat Wicks @ November 22 2010, 11:53 AM GMT

Toilet lids?

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Toilet lids! I ask you. I once saw about a five minute skit from a woman (on TV) about toilet lids - and it was getting (female) laughs. If it was down when she came in and she didn't see a newspaper on the floor, she'd suspect her boyfriend of having an affair, among other toilet lid based stuff.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 22 2010, 12:04 PM GMT

Toilet lids! I ask you. I once saw about a five minute skit from a woman (on TV) about toilet lids - and it was getting (female) laughs. If it was down when she came in and she didn't see a newspaper on the floor, she'd suspect her boyfriend of having an affair, among other toilet lid based stuff.

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thats a cracking joke

I thought toilet lids was antisemitic rhyming slang

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 22 2010, 12:04 PM GMT

Toilet lids! I ask you. I once saw about a five minute skit from a woman (on TV) about toilet lids - and it was getting (female) laughs. If it was down when she came in and she didn't see a newspaper on the floor, she'd suspect her boyfriend of having an affair, among other toilet lid based stuff.

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Seeing as I absolutely don't get it, is it possible that it's just shit as opposed to 'woman orientated'?