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The Stepfordization of Hollywood's Comely Comediennes
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11/10/08
Here's some number crunching I did after the Emmys this year. Enjoy the sexism.
1 out of the 5 nominees for Outstanding Directing, Drama
0 out of the 6 nominees for Outstanding Directing, Comedy
0 out of the 5 nominees for Outstanding Directing, Miniseries, Movie, Dramatic Special
0 out of the 5 nominees for Outstanding Directing for Variety, Music, or Comedy Program
8 out of the 34 nominees (producers of executive producers) for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
1 out of the 8 nominees for Outstanding Writing, Comedy (and the winner, Tina Fey.)
1 (co-writer) out of the 9 nominees for Outstanding Writing, Drama
1 out of the 6 nominees for Outstanding Writing, Miniseries, Movie, Dramatic Special
And, finally, out of the whopping 85 writers over 5 shows nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series ... we saw EIGHT female nominees, about 8%.
There are NO female writers for The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and now, there's none for TDS
Not funny.
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(Totally kidding about the first part, totally serious about the latter.)
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But it's probably just because women aren't funny. They're good editors, though, because it's like sewing.
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And I say this as a person who wishes to have many, many children with Jon.
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I found both shows really hard to watch during the primaries, because their coverage of Hillary was so blatantly sexist on several occasions (and yeah, Colbert's playing a character, but his treatment of Hillary was different than his treatment of Obama, and Stewart doesn't even have that excuse), and they've had some other issues as well.
Of course, they also give us fabulous (if unfortunately infrequent) bits with Samantha Bee and Kristen Schaal...
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Who is spinning off and to where?
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