Why We Laugh: Female Comics/Comedians / by *nickels*

In this upcoming film, the trailer is featured here. I HAD to write about it once I saw it for two big reasons.

  1. It features some of my favorite actresses (who happen to be supremely talented and ridiculously hilarious)
  2. I have a sneaking suspicion, I don't know how or why, but I do know THAT, I may be featured in a film like this somewhere down the line
I don't know how legit it is, but it's funny. I do not think I'm funny... onstage. When I get a laugh, it damn near shocks me because I'm so stunned/surprised. And yet, in everyday life, people always laugh at me commenting that I saw the most ridiculous, blunt, hilarious on things about truths in life. I do have a ton of to-do lists, but I do know that the first thing I'm doing once I move to my next big city, is sign up for classes at the comedy club and see what happens from there. Here's hoping I also get over my fear of heckling. If there's one truth I've found, in addition to being able to make your own work, if you are a woman who can make someone laugh (or turn someone on), you're gonna work more. lol.

The film features such greats as Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Janeane Garofalo, Natasha Leggero, Aisha Tyler, Kim Wayans and is narrated by none other than the woman herself, Joan Rivers. 

Quotes:

"If I could choose between being beautiful or being funny, I'd choose beautiful. But don't tell [the other comedians featured] or it'll ruin the whole hour." - Joan Rivers

"The best advice ever given to me was fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Don't come to my show and expect me to be anything other than what I am. You came to me." - Whoopi Goldberg

"Happy children should not become actors or performers because they don't have whatever that ache or that hollowness is or that need need is that produces whatever the juice is that makes for a performer's thing."