Can a pretty girl be funny?
MARGARET CHO (Lifetime s upcoming Drop Dead Diva): I remember seeing beautiful girls do stand-up, and it was a disaster every time. Not only were people not gonna listen to you because you re a woman, if you re good-looking, people really don t want to listen to you. SUSIE ESSMAN (Curb Your Enthusiasm): I ve had to give some young female comics advice about what they re wearing. Like, you can t wear something too provocative it s too confusing to the men in the audience. They don t know if they wanna fuck you or laugh at you. JOAN RIVERS (comedian): Phyllis Diller used to dress like a fool. Totie Fields was a big fat woman. In the beginning, women comedians were all grotesque in one way or another. PHYLLIS DILLER (comedian): When I started, I had a broken nose, my teeth were crooked, and I was very skinny. And you know what? It all helped. ESSMAN: I always wondered if Roseanne would have been accepted by the country, being as strong as she was, if she weren t fat. Lucy was beautiful. B
