Joan Rivers and the Humorless Generation: How the Politically Correct Culture is Killing Comedy

I understand that women comedians are held to a different standard and some feel they have to be just as vile and disgusting as male comedians of their ilk. I get that. But I don’t have to like it.

Jerry Lewis once said that women & comedy don't really mix. Stand-up, anyway. A woman can be a comic actress, but not a comedienne. Probably the nature of the beast -- really good comedy will be either cruel or coarse, "unfeminine" traits.

Hate to say, but I think he's right. The classy comediennes like Lucille Ball or Carol Burnett had started out in other ventures. Lucille Ball had been a dancer -- & a beautiful woman. They had a grace & elegance to them. I find the Jewish comediennes (I'm Jewish, BTW) irritating, shrill & vulgar.

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