Women May Under Certain Conditions Be Funny
But No Fart Jokes, Adultery Scenes, Unlikable Behavior, References to Autism, Or Hopes of Femininity Permitted
Introducing the program “Can Women Be Funny?”, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum, the evening’s moderator, joked that the original title was “Are All Women Bitches?” But that question, she said, “was more polarizing, so we stuck with this.” Daum opened the conversation, which took place at The Actors’ Gang in Culver City, by asking whether women can carry a big Hollywood movie—or if something like Bridesmaids is an anomaly. Lisa Zeidner, author of the satirical novel Love Bomb, said that Bridesmaids proved that women can make fart jokes—and if …
