Modified On April 1, 2007
Yet another WashPo article on women in comedy, this one authored by Michael Cavna. The premise is in the lede:
Back in the estrogenated ’90s, you couldn’t swing Gallagher’s sledgehammer over your head without hitting a slew of sitcoms starring female stand-up comics (Roseanne, Brett Butler, Margaret Cho, Ellen DeGeneres, et al.). With the first-season success of Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Central show, we ponder: Why aren’t there more women comics starring in their own prime-time comedies? If snarky blond David Spade can keep landing comedies, why not a snarky blonde like Amy Poehler or Maria Bamford
Bamford’s people went into overtime, scoring two giant pieces in the Post in one weekend. They’re earning their dough!
Our favorite part was the chunk about Bonnie McFarlane:
BONNIE McFARLANE
You know her from: Her HBO special and “Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn.”
Deserves her own gig because: Her edgy brand of sly subversiveness might well get past skittish network censors and the hair-trigger FCC. (And her “Women Aren’t Funny” essay is a minor masterwork.)
Sample riff: “Sometimes I wish I did have a drug addiction — that would explain why I have nothing.”
Of course, we would’ve appreciated it if the WashPo folks would’ve actually hyperlinked the masterwork to the publication in which it originally appeared– SHECKYmagazine.com!