Good female comedians are like unicorns. Extremely rare and worth big bucks if you can find one. Suuuure. You can glue a cone to a horse and claim that it is a unicorn, but that is really just forcing something to be something that it isn't. There are a lot of female comedians that fit that analogy, Cho, Barr and even Sarah Silverman (who I once thought was the funniest person alive). Silverman suffers from a serious problem that makes her popular but only to certain people. She does waaaaaaay too much "gross comedy". This makes her popular with teen males, but once they get older theyrealize that she is just a grown woman (I think in her 40's) making fart noises on stage and describing what diarrhea is.
Cummings is a little different. I absolutely believe that she only got a break because she was funny and much more attractive than a lot of female comedians, but over the years she has grown into a pretty solid comedian. While she will get into the "gross comedy" area from time to time, most of her comedy in this special is "gender comedy". She has one REALLY annoying problem with starting off each sentence at a higher level than the rest of the joke. I realize that this is nitpicking, but watch this special and tell me that I am wrong. Other than that, I think that you should check this one out on Netflix.
Movies, TV, and entertainment in general...that is what I like to talk about.
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