Seeing the women from Bridesmaids on the Oscars broadcast last night made me think of something. Right now there are a lot of great female comedians and there are a lot of great male comedians. But if you go beyond people doing comedy professionally, women are just much funnier. Most of the women I know are hilarious. They could be doing comedy professionally if they had followed that career path. I don’t think the same is true of male friends and acquaintances. Whoever has to put up with more shit in society will naturally be funnier. If you’re not standing in the mainstream, you’re looking at the world from an angle, and that’s just a more amusing way to see things.

You don’t see a lot of female faces at the head of Fortune 500 companies or on currency, and that’s why you see so many of them on comedy and improv stages. It’s sort of like how pro basketball is dominated in America by whatever ethnic group in living in the ghetto. Before African-Americans ruled the sport, the players were mostly Jewish men. As economic power shifts, so do talents.

Of course, women were putting up with a lot of crap long before they had the opportunity to shine in comedy. And they were probably funnier then, too.

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