Why are girls not funny?

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Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman

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yes. see Upright Citizens Brigade and The Aristocrats

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Or even Roseanne Barr?



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An example in my mind of, "Was funny, then got famous, no longer funny." Whoopi Goldberg is another. Ellen D. as well.

Is this a female thing? The great stand-ups are no longer funny after they hit?

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I never found any of these three funny. Whoopi was funny here and there in the very earliest part of her career, but it almost instantly vanished. Roseanne was a curiosity for her attitude, but it wasn't a pleasant attitude, she had a tremendously irritating whiney nasal voice, and she only very very rarely cranked so much of a smile out of me. Ellen Degeneres is one of the most amazing comics in the world to me, because she WAS NEVER FUNNY ONCE. I saw her act many times before she became famous, and I sat through it amazed that anyone could be that dull and unfunny, and still be asked to come back. I mean, here was truly a person with no talent. Once she got famous, she got far worse; she not only wasn't amusing, she became annoying, strident, self-righteous and self-pitying, as if all those attitudes were positive boons she were on a mission from God to share with the rest of us. Her performance arc was the opposite of her career one, going from ineffective and dull to unpleasant and definitively talentless, without ever stopping at funny along the way.

America has been forcefed a lot of talentless comic actresses and comedians, but we've done exceptionally poorly with the sparse choice of women comics we've been given: Roseanne Barr, Ellen Degeneres, Rosey O'Donnell. Surely there were many funnier women out there than this lame bunch. They were all "women's comics," with unpleasant personalities and very little crossover appeal.