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Scientists “Prove” Men Are Funnier Than Women - Today in things that make us...

A group of researchers from the University of New Mexico conducted an Official Scientific Study and determined that “humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in...

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On Funny Women: From Typecast to Transformed - Essay

Months ago Emily Schorr Lesnick approached us and asked us if we would be interested in running her “localized study of female improvisers” that “looked at how funny women navigate gender on stage.”...

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How Do Funny Women “Do” Gender On Stage? - Essay

Months ago Emily Schorr Lesnick approached us and asked us if we would be interested in running her “localized study of female improvisers” that “looked at how funny women navigate gender on stage.”...

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Some Girls Are Pretty. Some Girls Are Funny. I’m Pretty Funny. - Essay

Months ago Emily Schorr Lesnick approached us and asked us if we would be interested in running her “localized study of female improvisers” that “looked at how funny women navigate gender on stage.”...

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From One Comedian To Another: Amy Poehler Interviews Irma Kalish [VIDEO] -...

Amy Poehler recently got the chance to sit down with comedy writer/producer Irma Kalish for her webseries Smart Girls. It was a pretty big deal for Poehler considering Kalish is a significant...

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Comedians, Who Happen To Be Women, Discuss The Term “Female Comedians” - A...

Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious is a new special coming to OWN Saturday, July 13 and features the comedian chatting up fellow funny friends Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith, and Dominique Whitten. In this...

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Dressing Like A Woman Made Dustin Hoffman Realize He’d Been Brainwashed...

In this interview with AFI archives from late 2012, actor Dustin Hoffman remembers the initial planning for Tootsie, the film in which his character disguises himself as a woman for a job. It was the...

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Bojack Horseman Writer Brilliantly Explains The “Male As Default” Problem In...

For a show about a washed up horse actor who lives in a world where animals and people coexist as sentient clothes-wearing beings, Netflix’s Bojack Horseman is surprisingly good with representation...

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8 Times Futurama Dropped the Ball on Gender

If you’re reading this, you probably already love Futurama, and for good reason. The show had tight humor and it was accessible to a wide viewership, but you could tell the writers were huge science...

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BBC Put Together a List of the 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time, Apparently...

The BBC has released a list of the “100 Greatest Comedies of All Time.” Of those 100 movies (101, actually, including one tie), only four are directed by women: Elaine May’s A New Leaf (#90), Vera...

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Blockers Is Shockingly Sex-Positive, Nuanced, & Just Plain Hilarious

Earlier this year, I put together a list of some female-led movies I was excited about. Scrolling through trailers and press releases, it was the first time I’d heard of Blockers, and it was...

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