![]() ![]() She thinks the sheer number if women in comedy really should settle the issue. “We’ve had a lot in the past few years, but we had a lot in the 1980’s, too,” she said. Every few years there seems to be a large influx of women in comedy. One problem, she says, is short memories. “I don’t know that I answer the question so much as acknowledge that the question is there,” she told me. ![]() She wanted to talk to women from a variety of eras about what being a female comic had been like, what sort of peer groups they had, where their support came from, and how hard they had to work for recognition.Īs for the women-being-funny question, after all of those interviews, Kohen’s book does not provide a pat response. ![]() “It was a much richer, fuller story than people realize.” “There was a lot of interesting material left on the cutting-room floor,” she said. ![]()
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