snoop1130 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy By Micha Frazer-Carroll Tiffany Haddish hands the mic to up-and-coming comedians for Netflix’s They Ready. Photograph: Fairfax Media In 2017, Tiffany Haddish, the breakout star of Girls Trip, told the Guardian that she has never wanted to “steal the show”. “I’m not a thief. Where I come from, you don’t call someone that.” This week, Haddish is going to practise what she preaches, handing the mic over to six comedians she thinks deserve our time. The stars subvert the male, pale and stale status quo: they are mainly women of colour, and also represent queer, trans and working-class identities. The show undoubtedly breaks new ground in representation in comedy. Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/aug/14/the-boys-club-has-been-obliterated-meet-the-women-of-colour-shaking-up-comedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Well white guys aren't allowed to tell edgy jokes anymore, so someone should try to be funny, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgdanson Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 1 hour ago, canuckamuck said: Well white guys aren't allowed to tell edgy jokes anymore, so someone should try to be funny, You can still get Bernard Manning on You Tube. Or The Comedians. Real humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunderhill Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 12 hours ago, snoop1130 said: they are mainly women of colour Jesus wept why insert this crap, you could then add transgender women of colour to make it EVEN MORE PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorG Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 I saw the promo of this on Netflix and I can definitely say one thing that it is NOT, and that is FUNNY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soistalker Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 More from the diversity cult. Imagine a white guy sitting in the front row of the audience not politely laughing at not funny jokes. Comedy is supposed to be funny. Diversity has nothing to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korkenzieher Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 WhoGAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 4 hours ago, gunderhill said: Jesus wept why insert this crap, you could then add transgender women of colour to make it EVEN MORE PC You fell for the bait. Look at where this article was published. The Guardian is as it always was, divorced from the lives and concerns of ordinary working people, read by champagne socialists and bearded academics, constantly seeking out angry positions to oppose anything or any group that seems to represent capitalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krataiboy Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Women aren't funny because, unlike men, they don't have a built-in imperative to be so. To put it crudely, a woman doesn't need to make a man laugh to get laid. By contrast, a man who cannot reduce a potential sex partner at least to giggles (and ideally to full-throated, open mouthed laughter) is an evolutionary abberation unlikely to pass on his genes to the next generation. The late and great Christopher Hitchens promulgated this theory far more cogently and entertainingly than I ever could in a Vanity Fair piece twelve years ago. For some reason, not many women found his witty dissertation amusing! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/01/hitchens200701 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timendres Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 So, we are just supposed to ignore the already quite famous and successful female comedians, such as Tig Nataro and Amy Schumer? Okay. Thanks for letting me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soistalker Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 7 hours ago, timendres said: So, we are just supposed to ignore the already quite famous and successful female comedians, such as Tig Nataro and Amy Schumer? Okay. Thanks for letting me know. Tig nataro is an unfunny lesbian. Amy Schumer is a joke stealing fraud. Google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handsome Gardener Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Women just aren't funny, sure you'll get the odd one in life as a mate that's entertaining but as a stand up ? no way - I don't know why but its fact! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timendres Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 15 minutes ago, soistalker said: Tig nataro is an unfunny lesbian. Amy Schumer is a joke stealing fraud. Google it. Well, thank goodness you clarified everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 23 hours ago, timendres said: So, we are just supposed to ignore the already quite famous and successful female comedians, such as Tig Nataro and Amy Schumer? Okay. Thanks for letting me know. So famous I never heard of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 15 hours ago, Handsome Gardener said: Women just aren't funny, sure you'll get the odd one in life as a mate that's entertaining but as a stand up ? no way - I don't know why but its fact! That's a bit unfair. I've seen some female comediennes on tv that were passable, but overall, they do polite humour, when the best humour is not polite and is definitely not PC. Men will never prefer female humour, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunderhill Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 On 8/15/2019 at 10:42 AM, korkenzieher said: WhoGAF. As a heterosexual man of no colour...........not me , did I mention I was heterosexual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soistalker Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 "Our next comediane is a black lesbian transgender, so let's give her a big round of applause for being black, lesbian, and transgender!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazar Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 11 minutes ago, soistalker said: for being black You can't say that anymore, apparently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanemax Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 On 8/14/2019 at 6:06 PM, snoop1130 said: The stars subvert the male, pale and stale status quo: Imagine if a White guy mentioned a Black Females colour and Gender and made similar statements about getting rid of ALL Blacks and Females and taking over . He would never work again and may possible get arrested . Its not all about equality , its about replacement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losworld Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 This is more about suppression of male comedians than it is about the blossoming of these comedy acts. The powers that be decide who gets the stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losworld Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 10 minutes ago, sanemax said: Imagine if a White guy mentioned a Black Females colour and Gender and made similar statements about getting rid of ALL Blacks and Females and taking over . He would never work again and may possible get arrested . Its not all about equality , its about replacement yeah but will the populace every figure it out or is it just another "conspiracy theory" lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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