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Tig Notaro’s Faith In Louis C.K.’s New Business Model Will Be Tested Today
Comedian Tig Notaro recently attracted quite a bit of attention for a standup set she performed at the Largo in Los Angeles about her recent diagnosis with breast cancer. While the reviews from Largo...
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Tig Notaro And Vulnerability In Standup Comedy
We wrote about Tig Notaro’s new album being sold via Louis C.K.’s anti-middleman website, which has become another way for C.K. and now Notaro to communicate with their fans: by offering their art in...
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Arianna Huffington Hits On Seth Meyers On SNL
Christina Applegate was the host of this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, but one highlight of her episode was the return of Nasim Pedrad’s Arianna Huffington impression. As it turns out, this version of...
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Lisa Frank’s Darkest Hour
Lisa Frank has weighed heavily on our minds over the last few days, between sharing her working philosophy and employing a pre-teen Mila Kunis in her commercials. Frank’s aesthetic feels of a piece...
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Comedian Lahna Turner: You Don’t Have To Live In LA Or NYC To Be An Actor
I may not be a comedian, but I do know this: a lot of people have a lot of opinions on how to break into the field. One of the most common pieces of advice I’ve heard is that aspiring performers must...
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When Funny Women Try To Get Serious
Everyone get their Internet Biohazard suits on; Comedian Jen Kirkman dropped so many truth bombs on Tumblr the other day that I fear there is still some radioactivity rippling through the web. Kirkman,...
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10 Reasons Women Are Ruling Sundance This Year
Though the mainstream film industry is still very much a boys’ club, women are killing it at Sundance this year.Eight of the 16 films in the U.S. dramatic competition were made by women, compared to...
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Let’s Put On A Show: The Women Behind Blogologues
Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula met in college at Yale, and both moved to New York City to pursue careers in theater. Along the way, they created the internet variety show Blogologues, featuring...
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6 Reasons You Should Be Watching Burning Love (Instead of The Bachelor)
“I need to know that the woman I end up with doesn’t get fat one day”—Mark, Burning Love If you aren’t watching the show Burning Love, then you are just dumb, or don’t like to laugh, or maybe are...
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50 Hilarious Female Working Comedians (Part 1 of 2)
“Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny? Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about.” So wrote Christopher Hitchens in a now infamous Vanity Fair article....
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10 Things We’d Like To See Rebel Wilson Do When She Hosts the MTV Movie Awards
Who else is super excited that Rebel Wilson will be hosting the MTV Movie Awards?!! It has been a while since we have seen a lady up there. Actually the last time a woman hosted way back in 2007 when...
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Rebel Wilson Was A Great Host, But Can She Please Cut The Fat Jokes
I absolutely love Rebel Wilson so I was thrilled when I heard she would be hosting the MTV Movie Awards. It has been seven long years since a woman has hosted and Rebel is the comedy girl of the...
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50 Hilarious Female Working Comedians (Part 2 of 2)
“Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny? Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about.” So wrote Christopher Hitchens in a now infamous Vanity Fair article....
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You Need To Get Inside Amy Schumer
On Tuesday night the premiere of comedian Amy Schumer’s new show debuted on Comedy Central, Inside Amy Schumer. Don’t worry if you missed it, I am sure it will rerun literally every other half hour on...
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The Importance of The Heat
There’s The Other Guys starring Will Ferrel and Mark Walberg, Cop Out, Starsky & Hutch (both a TV series and a movie), Lethal Weapon, Running Scared…the list goes on and on. The buddy-cop movie is...
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Watch: Amy Schumer on How Women Accept Compliments
As we’ve previously mentioned, we are big fans of Amy Schumer. The girl just gets it. (And by “it” we mean, “us, fellow ladies.”) Hysterical, ruthless, vulgar, smart, and undeniably adorable, Schumer...
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Read of the Day: “Five Female Comedians to Not Watch in 2013!”
In Today’s Read of the Day, Reductress found out who SNL needs to hire next year…and it’s not these five women. Jenny Fipps Fipps is a New York native who stars in sketches for the niche comedy...
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Saturday Night Live Hires a New Staff Writer and She’s a She!
SNL has added another writer to its staff — Second City mainstage performer Katie Rich. Yes, ladies and gentleladies: the new staff writer is one of us. (Well, that is, if you’re white, of course.)...
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Psychology Today Scientifically Proves that Women Aren’t Funny
How many times have you been going about your day, innocently living your life, ordering your venti chai latte when BOOM — science decided to drop in and turn your world upside down?! When Pluto was...
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The Harvard Lampoon Elected Its First Black Female President
While SNL is scurrying to diversify their lily-white cast, Harvard’s famous undergraduate humor publication, The Harvard Lampoon, has just elected their first Black president — and she’s a she! Alexis...
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BBC Television Announces Ban on All-Male Comedy Show Panels
I am about to make a confession but before I do, know this: all you Monty-Python-obsessed, Ricky-Gervais-worshipping Anglophiles should remain seated at all times; I am brimming with an Olympics-fueled...
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Female Comic Booted From Bill Due to Being a Female Comic
Last Friday standup comedian Jenny Collier received an email from bookers Mirth Control telling her to not show up for her show that evening. The reason? The venue was afraid that having too many...
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