I don't take Adam Carolla saying women aren't funny seriously. He once told a caller on Loveline to eat a used tampon, y'know?
Adam Carolla Thinks Women Aren’t Funny
How very disappointing, Adam.
I know, right? Now tell your friends!
Adam Carolla Thinks Women Aren't Funny
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Here are the quotes he gave The Post in an interview, published yesterday:
The lesson you learned from a sexual harassment seminar was “Don’t hire chicks.” Do you hate working with women?
No. But they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they’re always the least funny on the writing staff. The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I’m just gonna tell her, “Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you, they can’t really fire you, and you don’t have to produce that much. It’ll be awesome.”
The “are women funny” debate has grown very contentious. You’re not worried about reactions to this?
I don’t care. When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds. When it comes to comedy, of course there’s Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Kathy Griffin — super-funny chicks. But if you’re playing the odds? No.
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they’d be off TV. They’re not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we’d know who she was? Honestly.
As someone who spent their teenage years listening to Loveline and took everything this man said as sage advice, this is particularly disgusting. So far, Carolla hasn’t said anything about the quote he gave to the Post, but he has updated his twitter several times about upcoming guests on his Podcast. Cool.
Do his comments about women’s inability to be funny — and how they luck into comedy writing jobs — offend you? Me, too. Never fear! The following hilarious comedians and internet personalities spoke out about his comments on their twitter yesterday:
Just RTd a tweet written by a female comic. Yep, I'm one of the *good ones*.
I'm less offended by Adam Corolla's comments than I am super impressed that he came here in a time machine to speak to us from the 80's.
Wait, Adam Carolla, is he the one who did the voice of the parrot in Aladdin??? He makes me giggle.
Why are we ruining our perfect not caring what Adam Carolla thinks streak?
Adam Carolla's death rattle sounds like the rusty church bells of a crumbling empire. Don't listen to the old man, he's already a ghost.
The bit about picking a "brother" for a B-ball team over "the guy w/ the yarmulke" may B more offensive than the #WomenArentFunny crap, Adam
The biggest impact this whole Adam Carolla scandal has had is discovering 95% of people have no idea how to spell 'Carolla'.
Thank-you, Adam Corolla. Your terribleness gives all of us the opportunity to scream how NOT TERRIBLE we are!! YAY!
So does this mean Adam Carolla isn't booking Letterman anymore?
You know what Adam Carolla said about women not being funny is bull, at a party last week I made him laugh three goddamn times.
I thought Adam Carolla hated me turns out he just thought I was a woman.
let's all stop being sexist and just admit that PEOPLE aren't funny.
Hey Carolla - don't think women are funny? Two words: ALLY. McBEAL.
Fuck you, Adam Carolla. JULIANNA MARGULIES = BARREL OF LAUGHS.
Adam Carolla must HATE Bunheads.
That's it. I'm starting and gonna front an all-girl punk band called "The Man Show."
Gonna edit manuscript of my book in bed, up early for radio to plug a stand up gig, then off to my comedy writing job. #goodniteadamcarolla
If adam corolla thinks women aren't funny, I'd like my gas $ back frm driving 2 his garage on my nite off to do his podcast per his request.
I think all comics are funny, even adam carolla-actually-everyone has at least three good minutes-
actually, a shout out to all funny male comics whom I love: every other guy comic except Adam Carolla
Currently collating today's 50,000 Twitter jokes about Adam Carolla by gender. Should be able to settle this shortly.
@KateAurthur @danicaps Eat a dick Adam Corolla.
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not.claudia.schiffer 11 months agoI never thought that his sense of humor was any good, so I’m not surprised by his comment. I feel bad for him.
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roocha 11 months agoJust because the majority of successful stand-up comedians and comedy writers are men doesn’t mean women aren’t funny, it just proves that patriarchy exists. That’s like saying that because the majority of executive chefs are men, women are bad cooks—I don’t think even the misogynists would touch that one.
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BuzzfeedThePoor 11 months ago
You guys should’ve listened yo Lisa lampanelli (spelling?) on tmz live. Hilarious stuff.
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AdventureNeckbeard 11 months agoAll the guys here saying all a women needs to do is look pretty. You must date soulless creatures. A woman MUST to learn how to make me laugh just as I learn how to make her laugh.
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fleamarket 11 months ago
And one more thing, chelsea peretti is one of the funniest comedians working right now. http://chelseaperetti.com/
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fleamarket 11 months ago
If Mr Carolla was referring to the women on twitter that tweet about him, then I agree. None of those tweets were remotely funny.
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AdventureNeckbeard 11 months ago
Yeah, male comedians that still make dick and fart jokes in their 30’s + are still funny.
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benjaminc5 11 months agoThe irony here is that none of the tweets from female comedians aren’t funny. Todd Barry and Billy Eichner’s were. I honestly think that comment about Joy Behar applies to Retta too.
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KatieP11 11 months agoPart of me kind of sort of gets this. I was raised by a very funny single father who taught me humor via boner jokes and making fart sounds when old ladies sat down and a lot of lewd comments and the like. While I didn’t have a female influence telling me to “act like a lady” 99.9% of women do. So, it’s not that they don’t have the capacity to be bawdy and hilarious, it’s just that society expects us to act a little “nicer” than boys. So while men sitting in a writers room are expected to tell dick jokes, girls often chime in with the boring, relationship humor. It’s not that women as a gender are unfunny; we’re just not given the same opportunity as men when forming our senses of humor. TL;DR Society sucks the humor out of women.
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