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>she is a rock solid female comedian, and i sugegst you give >her a try. great sense of humor that isn't over the top or >written with shock value in mind.
I'm going to check for her when I get the chance. > >>I like Monique and Wanda Sykes, who are probably the >funniest >>women comics thats out > >i disagree here, buti am not a fan of either so take that with >a grain of salt.
maybe I should have qualified it by saying they are the "funniest female black comics"
>>I do, however, think that the black female comics are >funnier >>than their white female counterparts (as is the black male >>comics are funnier than the white male comics overall) > >LOL. wow. can't cosign this aaaaat all,. if anything you have >a preconceived bias, which is fine, but at least admit it.
As far as stand up comedy, I think so but perhaps comedy in general...maybe the white female comics have the edge only because they had opportunities that black female comics weren't privy to. > >the problem with this is style and substance. there are so >many variants to this equation it's impossible to say. if you >want to use examples, you could say "chris rock is funnier >then dane cook", which i would agree with, but they really >aren't the same thing. i don't listen to dane for political >and social humor. well, i don't listen to dane outside of >albums one and 2, but thats another story. > >but try and tell me that mitch hedberg isn't a million times >funnier then martin lawrence, and i'll throw you out a 14th >story window on a hotel that skips the 13th floor so you can >die earlier.
Maybe Hedberg has the edge now but Martin is comic icon!...At his best in the early 90's his stand up was MUST SEE. (even Chris Rock said it was difficult opening up for Martin back then because no one wanted to see him; they only wanted to see Martin) So I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one. > > >>I mean as far as male comics go, we all know that by and >>large, Richard Pryor is viewed as the King of Comedy but who >>is considered the funniest female comic of all time? > >mmm i would put rodney dangerfield on the same level- but >again these are two different schools of thought. it's hard to >put the greats against the greats, because the greats are >always great in large part due to the niche they carve out for >themselves.
I agree to a point but as far as the Mount Rushmore of comedy is concerned, most,if not all, say that it is Pryor first and foremost...and then Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx.
I remember last year I was watching an interview with DL Hughley and the interviewer asked him why is it that "black comics are funnier than white comics?" He asked the question as if it was a foregone conclusion that Blacks were by and large funnier than white comics. And DL Hughley response was that Blacks, historically, have had to laugh to keep from crying. >
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