Im not trying to be offensive with the title but I really think this might be true? i mentioned once on the podcast how I love this other podcast I listen to the celebrity memoir podcast except one aspect of it the cohosts are really rude
They claim to be comedians but nothing they say on the podcast is funny to me I realized I might be crazy when another podcast I really like fluently forward talked about the celebrity memoir podcast and how much they enjoyed it and thought the cohosts were funny and I was like what is wrong with me?
I think I am a victim of the white female humor comedy being mean thing
Because I am mean like I get it
but both of these podcast have a big impact on this conversation in one episode of fluently forward it discusses Alex Cooper of call her daddy and how her whole perspective is pretty much speaking on sex and sexuality through the lens of a male
Alex is constantly looking for male approval while trying to be this girlboss Iicon sh e is is constantly trying to be like not one of the other girls putting down girls for being desperate etc but at the end of the day she knows a majority of her followers are also men especially when call her daddy was under barstool sports
I think of the real housewives I am a real housewives fanatic but I think a lot of the things I find funny about the show are catty girl fights, cheap digs, and women acting extremely crazy and frivolous I think this is a prime example of humor being mean I think about the most well-liked housewives and there are some similarities
Nene, Bethenny, Gizelle, Porsha, Ramona, The Countess, Vicky,
And no hate I love a lot of these housewives but all of nene’s famous one liners come at the expense of someone else and then I think about how someones lack of intelligence comes as a punchline and the whole things is based off of honestly mean girl behavior and low-key bullying?
Nene, and Bethenny are seen as funny for making fun of their quote dumb unquote counterparts and those counterparts, Porsha, Ramona, Carole become the laughing stock who make their money off of essentially being laughed at and women eat that up I don’t think this is even a race thing
I think I am a victim of this thought pattern whether its just inherent in me or from my closeness to whiteness growing up I think I exhibit these behaviors everyone I think is funny is usually just mean????
And when I try to think of people who don’t fall under this criticism the people who I think are funny without being super mean are actual female comedians, Tina fey, Mindy kaling, Maya Rudolph etc they aren’t overtly mean to me whether they are on snl or not maybe its the access we have to comedians or how their comedy is ingested by us in smaller quantities but maybe thats also what makes these comedians from the podcast not funny to me they don’t have any comedy thats not at the expense of someone else
I don’t think I really concluded to anything here but it was just something interesting I was thinking about recently