Women Aren't Funny
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- Year:
- 2014
- 79 min
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- Is that recording?
- Yeah, it's recording.
- So look...
- - No it isn't.
Yes, it is.
It says recording?
Um, OK, so this is the thing
is that I'm actually
trying to find out
do you think women are funny?
I've never met an unfunny woman.
Absolutely.
I love when you meet a girl out
and she tells you she's got
a best friend who's like
the funniest person ever.
She's got great stories
and then you meet her and,
oh my God, these stories, like, I'm
f***ing listening to this all night.
I don't wanna
shoot myself in the head.
or f***ing hang myself
from the nearest tree.
Do you think women are funny,
women comics are funny?
- Do I think women comics are funny?
- - Yes.
Actually, do I think alternative
women comics are funny.
You think alternative
women comics are funny?
I don't think women comics
are funny.
I don't want any women
in the movie.
Women aren't funny.
OK, get back.
First of all,
you're asking the right person
because I think a lot of guys are
not that f***ing funny, either.
You know what I mean? When people go,
"Well, a lot of women aren't funny."
It's like, "Are you
that funny too, shithead?"
I feel like I am
the exception to the rule
in the sense that
most women aren't funny
and then... I am.
You should be talking to,
like, a sociologist,
'cause I'm just a f***in' drunk.
What am I signing, in turquoise?
- Is it...
- It's the...
- Oh, what a f***in'...
- - It's a girls documentary.
I love how we make her
sit way in the corner,
- by the way.
- No, that's cool. I get it.
You know.
Now, Bonnie, what is
this that you're filming?
We're making a cocumentary.
- A cocumentary?
- Yeah.
Never heard the word
documentary butchered like that.
- Oh, I have.
- It's a comedy documentary.
- Yes.
- - Why do you call it that?
It's so dumb. It sounds dumb,
it's a documentary.
- Cocumentary?
- Well, it's a comedy.
- I think it works on two levels.
- Right there it's not funny.
Like, it's a comedy documentary.
So it's kind of a funny name.
And then you're in it.
So what exactly is this?
It's about...
what is the documentary about?
I'm on a quest to find out if
women are really funny or not.
- You know?
- All right.
Kind of like the last say in it.
Sum that up in about
three frames...
No.
This is exactly why
I am making this cocumentary.
Why are people still
so reluctant to admit
there are any funny women?
So women have this,
like, bad reputation
not being funny.
Where do you think
it comes from?
It's weird. Women are
soaring ahead in other areas
but in comedy, the attitudes
remain totally prehistoric.
- People think women are not funny?
- - Yes.
A lot of comedians actually
think there are a lot of...
that there aren't
funny female comedians.
Yeah.
Take this guy,
- What's your name?
- Jerry Lewis.
He may be famous
for portraying a dumb-dumb,
but he's infamous
for admitting publicly
that he doesn't think
any women are funny.
If he doesn't think
a woman is funny,
why does he dress up and
masquerade as a woman
and think it's so damn funny?
What were you saying?
This hot button issue encourages
many of our greatest thinkers
to weigh in.
I just think it's a lot harder for
women to do anything in society
because they have brains
a third the size of ours.
I just think the whole thing, like, are
you interviewing Hitchens, that guy?
That Christopher Hitchens guy
or whatever.
...Hitchens why women
aren't funny.
- Christopher Hitchens.
- In 2007,
renowned author
Christopher Hitchens
wrote a biting article
for Vanity Fair magazine
titled
"Why Women Aren't Funny."
It's doubly hurtful because
Hitchens usually saves his vitriol
for more deserving subjects,
like Henry Kissinger,
Mother Teresa, and God.
For Vanity Fair, Hitchens wrote,
"Why are women, who have the
whole male world at their mercy,
not funny? Please do not pretend not
to know what I'm talking about.
I read it. I didn't dwell on it.
Women are...
some women are funny. Next.
Hitchens blows my mind. I mean, I just think,
like, can you imagine if someone was like,
um, "Are black people smart?"
for Vanity Fair?
Like, f*** you.
You're getting screwed
all over the place.
It's just... you get screwed.
I don't know, whenever people
are sexist towards women
I just get super racist
towards black people.
You know, for a brilliant guy, he
says some really stupid things
- and that's one of them.
- - This unrelenting and aggressive attack
against funny women has left
some female comedians
afraid to talk candidly
for our film.
This woman has agreed to talk to
us only if we obscure her image.
...but I didn't realize
it would get so volatile
or make such big news.
We'll call her Ro.
But we find no shortage of male comedians who are
willing to go on record with their opinions.
They're not funny.
They're not f***ing funny.
There's more funny guys that I went to
high school with who are like, mechanics
than funny female comedians.
But, yeah, I don't find
a lot of women funny.
- Do you?
- I'll ask the questions.
Everybody's funny. It doesn't
matter if you're a guy or a girl.
It wasn't till I got in the
clubs that I was like,
"Wow, there's a lot of shitty
female comedians."
I think there is certainly
that stereotype that exists
in the culture. And I don't know
if it's just our culture,
American culture, or if that is true
throughout the world, you know?
I've done very little
research on the topic.
This is your documentary,
you should...
What? I'm busy.
- A binky.
- Chocolate.
A binky.
- Graham crackers, cookies.
- Who are you talking to?
In addition
to this project, I am a wife,
a mother and probably
most importantly,
a professional female
standup comedian.
Full disclosure,
I am an extremely
well credited opening act
for my husband.
Give 'em the plug.
Yes, my husband
is also a comedian.
And no, it's not always
a laugh riot.
- One, he's annoying.
- See that foot?
See how my toe's open?
Look at this one.
I can't get my pinky toe
to open.
With the unwavering
support of my husband,
I am able to add journalist
to my list of accreditations.
I am determined to find out
once and for all,
are women as funny as men?
I'm female comedian
Bonnie McFarlane.
I've heard "women aren't funny" almost
as often as "you're not funny."
But is it true?
- The debate is as old...
- This is stupid.
- What?
- Come on, let's go. This is stupid.
- I'm trying to do something,
- OK? It's stupid.
Looks like you're doing
a butter commercial
- or something.
- No, it's like I'm an investigative reporter.
- It's like a 20/20 sort of...
- It's not funny.
- No one gets this.
- It is funny.
I'm not wearing any pants.
You're gonna get ticks,
that's what's gonna happen.
Oh...
Where'd you get that from?
That's funny.
Now that's funny.
- Do this.
- And since I am participating as a subject,
to maintain some journalistic
integrity,
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