(A Tonight Show talent coordinator swears Rivers’ story isn’t completely true, but it sure sounds likely.) Joan Rivers recalls how she auditioned for The Tonight Show eight times before getting a shot - and only then because Bill Cosby recommended her. From the first, women had to fight male club owners, TV producers and agents to give them a shot on stage. While it could use more funny itself, We Killed does clearly depict how the entertainment industry has made it hard for women. Kohen’s book, “a very oral history” of women in comedy, sets out to show they’re wrong. Women all but rule comedy in 2012, right? Kristen Wiig? Tina Fey? Amy Poehler? Ellen DeGeneres?Īsk Adam Carolla, who told the New York Post this summer: “The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”Īs We Killed author Yael Kohen points out, comedy legends from Johnny Carson to John Belushi to Jerry Lewis all made similar pronouncements. In a way, it’s hard to understand why we’d need a book like We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy. We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedyīy Yael Kohen?(Sarah Crichton Books, 336 pages, $27)
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