People magazine gathered some of US leading funnywomen — Samantha Bee, Tracee Ellis Ross, Allison Janney, Kate McKinnon, and Niecy Nash — to weigh in on the age-old question: Can men be funny? As Samantha Bee put it: “It doesn’t feel possible to me. Their voices are so shrill. Like their voices are weird to my ears that when I ...
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John Cleese Explains why Comedians don’t Joke About Muslims
John Cleese of Monty Python has admitted on Bill Maher’s show something which his fellow comedians generally won’t: that the reason they don’t make jokes about Islam is that they’re frightened of being killed. [1] Recently, British comedian and writer John Cleese discussed the irony of political correctness. Cleese argued that the concept was “condescending” based on the idea that ...
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