Women Aren’t Funny, Movie Review

Alexandra Williams, Guest Writer

 

Do you think women are funny? This is the question that has surrounded the world of comedy for decades. The popular television show Saturday Night Live saw a major resurgent ever since Tina Fey started writing for the show, but the debate on whether women are funny or not, still exist.

Women Aren’t Funny isn’t a teen’s average movie, but it’s worth watching. In this documentary comedian and filmmaker Bonnie McFarlane goes on a quest to find out if women are really funny or not. From interviewing average people on the street to famous comedians on their shows, McFarlane and her comedian husband Rich Vos share their experiences together and apart trying to find the answer.

Women Aren’t Funny isn’t a teen’s average movie, but it’s worth watching. In this documentary comedian and filmmaker Bonnie McFarlane goes on a quest to find out if women are really funny or not. From interviewing average people on the street to famous comedians on their shows, McFarlane and her comedian husband Rich Vos share their experiences together and apart trying to find the answer.

  Chelsea Peretti, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis  and Wanda Sykes are just a handful of  well  known comedians that show up  throughout the movie, giving their own  opinion and thoughts on women  comedians.

Not only does this documentary explore what people think about how funny  women  are, it explains the difference  between  male and female comedians. The  movie also has hilarious skits and  sketches from  New York’s Gotham Comedy Club, Comedy Central and the Last Comic Standing.

Women Aren’t Funny isn’t just for women, it’s for anyone who wants a good laugh. It can at times though be very vulgar and insensitive. “Comedy isn’t based on kindness its the bare truth,” says the stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman in the movie. Words put perfectly to describe some of the content of this movie.

Overall, Women Aren’t Funny proved itself to be a hilarious documentary. Unlike the assumption that all documentaries are boring, this one is filled with many laughs and great jokes from a variety of comedians. My challenge to you is to try and sit through this movie without laughing and find out for yourself if the title is just ironic or the truth.