'Newsflash: comedy, as an industry, has a problem with how men behave towards women.' nomadicrevery writes for MetroUK
I never once felt afraid for my own safety, or that my future career might rest on anything more than my performance on stage That’s right, us – the comedians! The beta-males and bullied-at-school, the snowflake leftist ally gang! Who would have possibly thought it?
I’ve had life-changing experiences, mostly good, some bad. But even in the darker times, the dead ends and crappy nights on smelly sofas of odd men, I never once felt afraid for my own safety, or that my future career might rest on anything more than my performance on stage. Ask if they’ve ever been made to feel uncomfortable, or had unwanted physical contact from a co-worker, or been pressured into sex, or ever felt that their gender came before their job?
Whenever I’ve tried to articulate something about other men’s behaviour, Nigel pops up and says ‘But you’re no better! You’ve had drunken sex! You’ve woken up in a strangers bed! You’ve tried to wangle one more drink back at yours! You’re the worst! As embarrassing as this self-examination may be, we must accept the difference between how we behaved privately and how we present ourselves publicly.
Comedy needs more female acts, producers, promoters, writers, all female line-ups and all female writers rooms On the rare occasions I’ve been in writers rooms with a woman you would not believe the difference it made – the topics that opened up, the jokes that came from nowhere, the experience of 50% of the population suddenly having a voice in a television show. And, yep, funnier.
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