#female comedians
I saw a former male classmate diss Amy Schumer in her own movie because he found her humor too crude. I would not have an issue with his view on this, since not everyone’s humor is the same. BUT, don’t say you dislike a comedian due to crude humor and then have every single Kevin Smith movie listed as a favorite on your FB page. He’s still welcome to his opinion but I smell the hypocrisy.
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By now, you’ve probably heard about the Kurt Metzger/Amy Schumer debacle. Her comedy has been labelled as feminist, against rape, against ableism, body positive - does this now all change or are we asking her unfairly to represent all of feminism?
Sady Doyle explains: “Most critics aren’t asking Schumer to stop liking Metzger. They’re asking her to stop paying him…Schumer can hang out with Metzger on her own time, but if we want to watch her show without abetting rape culture, Schumer needs to provide us with a show that doesn’t have Kurt Metzger in it.”
More on Metzger’s troubling history of sexism and Schumer’s lack of reponse here.
Photo credit: Amy Schumer
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Check out this must-read interview with Mindy Kaling in The Guardian. Kaling explains that back in the day, “I wasn’t considered attractive or funny enough to play myself.” We love that she proved the naysayers wrong. And that the network that didn’t give her her own show is now out off the air. As if you needed another reason to love her.
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