Women as funny people.

See, I can't wait until I reach the age where I can do and say whatever I want and people say don't mind him, he's old!
Can't. Wait.

 

I think you need to get out more.

You have no idea whether these are funny people...they are actors who performed funny material. Huge difference. Likewise, you're judging 'funny' women or lack thereof by the roles they play.

 

First of all, I'm talking about girls in their early 20s, like I wrote in the original post.

Tina Fey is hilarious, but she's in her late 30s (??)

And, no, 21, I'm not tlaking about the roles they play. I'm talking about in interviews and viral video. Not as their roles, but as themselves, just when they're talking.

But yeah, well said.

 

Women in their 20s.

I know a certain professor who would love me forever for that one.

 

My grandma has two surgically reconstructed knees, arthritis, a heart condition and she walks like a penguin. I don't doubt your grandma could inflict some pain. My grandma would win the fight however, by nagging your grandma to death. She can be quite cold.

 

There are plenty of funny women, although they might not fit your age range for the characters:
Julia Louis Dreyfuss
Kathleen Madigan
Anna Faris
Sara Silverman
Parker Posey
That's just a handful of examples. There are plenty of them. Some are comics and some are actresses who can do comedy, not always a matched skill set.
Common sense tells me there are loads of younger funny women of whom I have not heard because they haven't gotten a big break yet.

 

I don't think my grandma knows how to nag. Not only is she funny, but she's a tough, self-deprecating, baseball fan who dispenses insults like it was her full-time job. She gave me a bottomless tin of cookies for Christmas several years ago and fills it whenever I bring it by her house. She gets her news from the late-night shows, but hates Conan O'Brien -- we argue over that quite often. She enjoys Family Guy at times, and she'd give all her savings to bring back the Game Show Network on her cable plan, which she cut two years ago because they axed the program; but it's OK because she still gets all the Yankee games on the radio.

I barely spoke with my parents for for four years, and in that time, my grandma and I spoke about four times a week. And she never told my family what I said about them; she's always had my trust. We talk about family, women, sex, jobs, the future, you name it.

And like Ray Finkle, she's one hell of a model American.

And that's just the beginning.

 

Sarah Silverman and Julia Louis-Dryfuss are the tops on my list for actresses. Julia, especially, is funny as hell in her interviews. She was on SNL before Seinfeld, and there's a reason for it.

 

First, your grandma sounds like an awesome lady.

Second, Laces Out DAN!

 

GB,

I don't want to devote too much time to this because I think your theory is half-baked at best. However, I would posit that if a woman were to be as physically attractive as Jonah Hill or Seth Rogen, she would never get a chance to headline a movie like Knocked Up. If a woman were built like Jonah Hill or Seth Rogen, she would not be considered a lead-type of actress. She'd be the funny fat girl, a la Monique.

There is a double standard there, and regardless of how funny a woman is, she'd damn well better be aesthetically pleasing or you'll NEVER hear of her.

 

OK, but no one has given me an example of a single funny girl in her early 20s. The only one who I can come up with is the girl from Superbad who hooks up with Michael Cera. And that's a stretch for me...

 

You definitely make a good point with that...