I'm not talking about stand-up comedians or comedic actresses or strictly writers. There are plenty of good -- even excellent comedic actresses and comedians working today -- especially on TV. I'm talking about showbiz BROADS. Personalities. Those women of a certain age who are natural born entertainers -- the ones who made brilliant talk show guests, who gave the funniest speeches at events like AFI tributes, who had a little edge, a little vinegar in them, who were eminently quotable. They may have in fact been actresses and/or writers, but they could shine just as themselves, without a "project". From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Rivers, Debbie Reynolds, to Nora Ephron to Elaine Stritch. Is there anyone like that left?
Dolly Parton?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 3, 2020 2:04 PM |
No, because that personality type is old and outdated. It was a persona designed to appeal to men who didn’t like women. The only broads left (Joy Behar, Susie Essman) are older.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 3, 2020 4:59 PM |
R1 - I guess Dolly has some of that in her, although she's really in a class of her own.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 4, 2020 1:08 AM |
Dolly isn’t really what the category is about. In addition to the fact that she is s first-rate musician, her bawdiness always has a sweetness. The “broad” is often talented but a full-fledged Star—I think of Suzanne Pleshette as an example, good actress in the right vehicle, but could also do trashy stuff like A Ragr to Live.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 4, 2020 1:15 AM |
Comedy and funny has been extinguished. It's simply not permitted any longer. The SJW have taken over. I wish Joan Rivers was still alive. She'd tell everyone to go fuck themselves.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 4, 2020 1:32 AM |
Deborah Di Giovinnai...............super super comic............
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 4, 2020 1:33 AM |
Charles Busch.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 4, 2020 1:33 AM |
Molly Shannon for sure
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 4, 2020 1:40 AM |
Agreed. Comedy is pretty much dead.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 4, 2020 1:42 AM |
Phoebe Waller Bridge
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 4, 2020 1:50 AM |
Alec Mapa
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 4, 2020 2:33 AM |
Kristen Johnston
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 4, 2020 2:39 AM |
Plenty of very talented funny people mentioned here in the last few posts, but none of them are really "funny broads" in the OP definition.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 4, 2020 2:42 AM |
JFC, OP -- what year is this? How old are you?
I hope you take it kindly when one of those old "broads" calls you a sissy faggot.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 4, 2020 2:45 AM |
Bette Midler isn't dead yet, so her I guess?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 4, 2020 2:48 AM |
R16 - oh, yeah, good one. She definitely fits the definition.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 4, 2020 2:54 AM |
I was literally in a movie called THESE OLD BROADS.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 4, 2020 3:02 AM |
Miriam Margolyes
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 4, 2020 4:40 AM |
Hello?? Cloris Leachman is still queen of the broads.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 4, 2020 4:45 AM |
Bette Midler
Laine Kazan
Jackée
Jennifer Coolidge
Kristen Johnston
Roseanne before she went crazy
Dyke broads:
Queen Latifah
Lea Delaria
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 4, 2020 5:24 AM |
Women aren't interesting these days because of feminism. They're too spoiled. They've been coddled by society and catered to too much to the point where they don't need to develop personalities anymore. They have it too easy. Even the ugly chicks.
That's why men are better at comedy than women. Men have more life experience and more struggles than women. Next time you're in a room with mixed company, notice how all the interesting people to talk to are men, while the women try to attract attention with their looks and loud laughing and irrelevant chatter. Women have nothing interesting to say.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 4, 2020 5:49 AM |
Ew. Get out of here with that misogynistic bullshit, R22. This thread was about celebrating women.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 4, 2020 5:51 AM |
I’m still here.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 4, 2020 8:13 AM |
Vs.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 4, 2020 7:29 PM |
Thinking of Totie Fields and Phyllis Diller, RIP. Both tough broads and funny guests.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 4, 2020 7:56 PM |
Fannie Flagg
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 4, 2020 8:16 PM |
Hannah Gadsby is stunning and brave and reinventing the phallocentric conceits of "stand-up comedy," OP!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 4, 2020 8:18 PM |
Joe Rogan has no business being in a thread about what's actually funny, BTW.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 4, 2020 8:19 PM |
The "funny broad" was the type of woman who could hold her own against the sexist culture of the cigar smoking, heavy drinking, butt slapping, back-room card playing, old-boys clubs and the men who ruled that whole scene. NY, Vegas, LA, South Beach. Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, Bette Midler, were some. But social values have changed and those types of men have been replaced. Their behavior is now considered inappropriate and there is less of a need for women to develop a bawdy style of humor to deflect and survive the misogynistic culture they're trapped in.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 5, 2020 12:47 AM |
R23, look Frau, don't get all butt hurt because you received an answer that wasn't to your liking. Take your pro-feminist BS somewhere else. Men don't want to hear it, and we're not all about celebrating women 24/7.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 5, 2020 12:47 AM |