Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Funny Women

Who saw Dawn French on The BBC t'other night interviewing all those amazing female comics? It was a marvellous show called Girls Who Do Comedy ( and yes, the "girls" bit pissed me off). It lasted a scant thirty minutes but was so uplifting and wicked and juicy that it could have run for hours and still entranced me.

There were little snippets of life story from each woman, talking about how comedy informed her childhood, framed her existence, made her who she is. It was both hilarious and poignant. The comics included Phyllis Diller, Victoria Wood, Sandra Bernhard, Rita Rudner, Catherine Tate, Linda Smith, Gina Yashere and (the utterly superb and vastly underrated)Mo Gaffney. If it gets repeated, watch it. (And I just googled it and found that it is a )THREE PART SERIES!! Woohoo!)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

YOu need to hear comediennes Wendy Liebman and Maria Bamford. Search for them on iTunes. They are genius.

Anonymous said...

I'm so jealous I won't see this in Canada (well and also because I don't have tv.) Dawn French !!! Murder She Wrote. Here we had Murder Most Horrid, The Vicar of Dibley, and mmm one other I can't remember, about 10-15 years ago.

Anonymous said...

Oh xx the Murder She Wrote. That was a slip for the title Murder Most Horrid.