Where comedy was completely dominated by men. not only does the show become the comedy show, they then create the modern model for all the sitcoms to follow. she s an absolute titan of comedy. to have a woman be not only a comedian but a solid business person, she broke ground for generations of us. [ laughter ] you don t see too many beautiful women be clowns like it. and she was, indeed, a beautiful woman. she was a movie star at mgm before nobody ever knew she could be funny. [ laughter ] mugging and doing pratt falls and doing things that maybe nice little girls wasn t supposed to do at one time. i never thought of it as a hindrance, as something we shouldn t do. we do them, we don t think how we look. is it easy to be sexy and funny at the same time? oh, yes. very easy.
Than amount to anything. [ laughter ] of course there have always been funny women. it s just a matter of whether the society that they were in was willing to let them be funny. we have with us this evening as international star miss fanny brice. [ applause ] it wasn t until the late 1800s and early 20th century that women started becoming really famous as comedic performers. a lot of them were comediennes. a women who gets up on stage, is funny, but she sings and dances. hey, wait a minute. the music stopped. i didn t hear it. oh, she dent hear it. she s more of an entertainer than just a straight comic. that was kind of what was allowed. it was not really accepted. for a woman to stand on stage and tell jokes and give their opinion to a bunch of men. until jean carroll. most fellas have a tough day at this race track, they get nasty.
Live longer. she s one of them girl comics. it ain t that funny. got extra gland in the hooha that filters the jokes full that ain t funny. i read it in science book. it s science, look it up. whole episode on planet earth they did about women and their anti-joke vaginas. in hd, too, horrifying. it is christmas eve. all welcome, wherever in the world you are watching. i m richard quest. i m in london. ahead on the cnn newsroom
Could kind of set my watch and go, when i go on stage, those guys are going to give me a problem. that man screams one more time, i m going to whack his pee-pee. do you understand? when guys give you a hard time, you should just go right for the jugular which is basically hey, buddy, i don t go to your job and knock the out of your mouth. which i think is appropriate and funny. mr. i don t have time to tell you all the things that are the matter with you. let s stah warrant that checkered let s start with that checkered bell bottom suit. you need to deal with it to make it in the clubs. the best ones did. hi, pigs. i don t know how to say this, but i want to be on you. i dated my last boyfriend for two years and finally gave him an ultimatum. i said, you tell me your name, or it s over. this is my long, luxurious blonde hair. ain t it pretty? yeah. i could put it in a ponytail, want to see? yes.
it s a beautiful piece the writing. it is. but you know alan, if he doesn t get a laugh every ten second, he calls the cops and has the audience arrested. rosemarie on the dick van dyke show was great to women because that was the first glimpse that maybe that was possible. not like there were plenty of career women on tv. tv were mainly housewives in sitcoms or were secretaries. they weren t writers. you would give up your job for uss? yeah. compared to you, i m a rat. compared to a rat you re a rat. my mother didn t want me to be funny because how was i going to get married and be funny at the same time? but here was rosemarie. she was blonde and pretty and funny. and i kind of liked that idea. no, don t bother to send it, mom. i don t think i m going to mexico after all. hang on there. newsroom. hello, mary? the mary tyler moore show
The tables have turned. the idea that jokes aren t funny, it s still very much a thing. there are some people who can t get their heads around what they don t know. i said i wanted to be a comedian, she said, maybe it s better if you just died. i think they thought of women as a different species. for view ladies are capable of being a comedian, so everybody sticks by them. here s somebody that thinks they do it. this is a great argument that women are doing much better work than men. you re welcome. when was the hardest
It ain t funny. carley: associated press just updated a story on trial for murder, murdering a vegas reporter. the ap changed the story without editor noit identifying telles as democrat and noting he lost the primary in june. the question is if this guy was a republican, would they have left out the party affiliation? joe: fun game to play early of any morning or any time of day, what if a conservative lawmaker had been accused of murdering a reporter, entire community would be up in arms talking about the dangers of domestic terrorists daily, almost no one is talking about