Female Comedy Writers Don't Have To Be As Crass Anymore, But ...
Community writer Megan Ganz, one of the three female writers on the writing staff for the show (a huge number for most TV shows), recently sat down with The Daily Beastto discuss the state of women in comedy amongst other things along with the show?s main actresses Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs and Yvette Nicole Brown. Because of the Bridesmaids effect it seems that women have finally been giving permission to be as crass as they want in comedy because we have proved it can be profitable. Ganz, who also wrote for The Onion, thinks female comedy writers don?t have to fight as hard to prove themselves in the writers room anymore.
She told The Daily Beast:
?There was a time when women in male writers? rooms had to be twice as crass as they were because they had to prove they could hang with the guys. Then things have shifted. Now it?s like you?re respected for your own particular voice. I don?t do blue humor ever. In fact, I?m probably on the prudish end of things.?
This subject was brought up because of the recent surge in rape jokes. They are regularly featured on 2 Broke Girls, a show with two female leads and created by a woman (Whitney Cummings), and told by comedians like Rainn Wilson and Community co-star Chevy Chase. Emily Nussbaum, the television critic for The New Yorker, has weighed in before on 2 Broke Girls and Cummings?s other sitcom, Whitney, and says, ?I actually think rape jokes can be hilarious.? Nussbaum believes there are more rape jokes out there right now because comedy is so much more female-driven. he more women there are writing the jokes, the more we?ll see ?subjects that are super-central to women and cause anxiety,? she says. So rape jokes are actually a sign of women making progress? Yah, I guess? Ganz is actually going against the grain by not working blue, but what she is saying is female comedians don?t have to do that if they don?t want. She said:
?When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it?s socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, ?I can speak my mind and say what I want.? For me, I was maybe 15 before I started being like, ?I?m just going to start saying things out loud. Why can?t I say what I think??
But at the same time Yvette Nicole Brown points out that if you are offended by a joke, you should say something. She referred to her costar Chevy Chase?s rape jokes at a Paley Center event. ?Maybe he was from a time when women weren?t empowered enough to speak up. I?m glad that we?re in a time now where if you are offended or upset by something someone says, you feel empowered to say, ?That?s not right.? Maybe he comes from a generation where he could say things like that and no one would ever say anything back to him. God bless is all I have to say.?
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