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Here’s a doozy.  Leave it to Jessica Wakeman via the frisky to get some juicy news.  This time in a conversation she had with Margaret Cho, Margaret started talking about women comedians and how straight women are less successful in the comedy business than lesbians and women with fluid gender identity (like her.)

Here’s what she said:

I think the comedy community is not supportive to women in comedy…It’s interesting; a lot of women who are successful in comedy are lesbians. Or they have a fluid kind of gender identity, like I do.

But you can’t really be a successful female comic if you give a s**t what guys think at all. So a lot of heterosexual women end up dropping out because they just care too much about what guys think. I think that’s why there’s always lesbians who take over because they don’t care. It’s just an element to their personalities that helps them get by. That’s the closet explanation I can see. The women comedians that are out there generally are gay. The community itself is not supportive to women and so you don’t have it on the inside and you don’t have any kind of building or a connection; it’s just hard.

What do you think? Do straight women comedians temper their comedy to be liked by guys?  I think that Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Sarah Silverman are hysterical, but Kate Clinton, Sandra Bernhard, Lily Tomlin, Suzanne Westenhoefer and Judy Gold all kill.  And we can’t forget the fact that Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen Degeneres both used to do stand up.

Is his even a helpful conversation to have and who are your favorite female comedians?

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• Comedy
• Ellen Degeneres
• Tina Fey
• Amy Poehler
• Judy Gold
• Kate Clinton
• Lily Tomlin
• Margaret Cho
• Rosie ODonnell
• Sandra Bernhard
• Sarah Silverman
• Suzanne Westenhoefer

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