Recently, a friend confessed that she was terrified, after viewing the trailer, that Bridesmaids was going to be no good, and that said not-goodness would confirm existing prejudices against funny women. (I saw Bridesmaids. Lots of people at the screening, including dudes and including myself, laughed a lot, but who…

According to an unnamed source, NBC's head of comedy, Jeff Ingold, is expected to leave the network soon and Sony TV comedy executive Tal Rabinowitz (pictured) is set to replace him.

In this week's episode of The Soup, Joel McHale told a sexist joke, then brought out the writer, Tess Rafferty. You see, it's okay for Joel to make a misogynistic jab, as long as it's penned by the show's lone female writer. Just like how it's cool for a white person to say something racist if they heard it from a…

The trajectory of the whole women in comedy debate over the past couple of years could be summed up as follows:

Let's solve this women-in-comedy "problem" once and for all…with Twitter.

Tina Fey knows the difference between male and female comedy writers: One pisses in cups, the other uses maxi pads.

After booking one female comic-–one–-out of 30 comics for its Austin showcase, SXSW has said it's "disappointed" there aren't more female comics on the line-up. To this I say: horse shit.

"The definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore." -Tina Fey, in The New Yorker (sub. only) in a relatively earnest take on motherhood, anxiety, and Hollywood.

"I'm not going to get emotional tonight," said Tina Fey, accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, "because I'm a stone-cold bitch." She also regretted that she hadn't received the Judy Blume Award For Awkward Puberty.

Right-wing women, said Tina Fey last night, are great for all women, "unless you don't want to pay for your own rape kit...[or] you're a lesbian who wants to get married to your partner of 20 years."

The final Cathy comic strip ran this morning, wrapping up Cathy's world with a sweet thank you, a nod to Cathy's feminist roots, and a surprise introduction to the strip's newest and last character, who already knows how to "aack."

Unclear why he was so hostile to funny ladies in the first place, but kudos on realizing that "comedy is a lot more fun once you quit depriving yourself of laughs based solely on the topography of the performer's genitalia."

In Harper's Bazaar's September issue, Jennifer Aniston says, "People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't." Actually, we weren't laughing at Jen before, but the accompanying Barbra Streisand-inspired photo shoot makes it hard not to.

Wanda Sykes. Ellen DeGeneres. Rosie O'Donnell. Lily Tomlin. They are funny women who also happen to like women. And Margaret Cho has a theory about that.

With her new Daily Show gig, an NBC sitcom, and a book, Suck It, Wonder Woman!, Olivia Munn's carefully-crafted image as geek sex symbol is about to get a bigger audience than ever. Will she win over the ladies too?

Olivia Munn debuted on The Daily Show last night as its "senior Asian correspondent," in what's being called a tryout. The co-host of Attack of the Show will be the second woman currently on the show, and its fifth ever.

In November the Kennedy Center will present Tina Fey with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the nation's most prestigious comedy award. She's the youngest honoree and only the third woman, after Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg. [USA Today]

"It's more about a friendship. We started writing this movie almost four years ago, before there were all of these movies about weddings. Then, all of a sudden, there were so many in one year. We were like, Uh-oh." [BlackBook]