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May 16, 2012
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storyboard: Lady Comics: Who Needs Late Night? We’ve Got Tumblr If you ask a female comedian how social media has impacted her professional life, she will likely respond like Elaine Carroll. “Social media has made my career,” says Carroll, the 30-year-old creator of the Very Mary Kate web series, a spoof of Mary Kate Olsen’s glam life in New York. Remember just a few years back, when comedians (of any gender) relentlessly chased guest spots at the feet of David Letterman and Jay Leno? Getting a gig on late night was the ultimate career boost, but women comedians had to fight through the prejudices both professional (like infamously misogynist Letterman booker Eddie Brill) and cultural (let’s all try to forget that Christopher Hitchens essay). But the level playing field of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr means no one gets between ambitious talent and a potentially receptive audience. All it takes is perseverance, ability, skill, and infinite patience. Read More

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Lady Comics: Who Needs Late Night? We’ve Got Tumblr

If you ask a female comedian how social media has impacted her professional life, she will likely respond like Elaine Carroll. “Social media has made my career,” says Carroll, the 30-year-old creator of the Very Mary Kate web series, a spoof of Mary Kate Olsen’s glam life in New York.

Remember just a few years back, when comedians (of any gender) relentlessly chased guest spots at the feet of David Letterman and Jay Leno? Getting a gig on late night was the ultimate career boost, but women comedians had to fight through the prejudices both professional (like infamously misogynist Letterman booker Eddie Brill) and cultural (let’s all try to forget that Christopher Hitchens essay).

But the level playing field of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr means no one gets between ambitious talent and a potentially receptive audience. All it takes is perseverance, ability, skill, and infinite patience.

Read More

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July 10, 2010
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The Daily Show v. Jezebel War Rages On… But in the Meantime, a Genius Word from Tiger Beatdown

So Jezebel wrote this post about the Daily Show having no women.

Then the women of the Daily Show responded.

Then every blog everywhere (and even that darned mainstream press!) decided to weigh in, the writer of the Jezebel kind-of-but-didn’t-really respond, we wrote something, and Emily Gould wrote a piece for Slate, though hers was more about Jezebel being jealous and inciting blogwars for clicks, which created a whole new debate, and, then, wait, now we’re confused. Lemondrop has the best play-by-play, if you want the gory details.

So, we’re over the whole thing, frankly. Except that we just saw that the ladybloggers over at Tiger Beatdown posted a fake letter from the Daily Show women responding to the letter that was responding to Jezebel. And, well, it’s kind of awesome.

Dear Feminists:

We work at the Daily Show. We are all women! Please do not make any enquiries as to whether we are hired or promoted at the same rate as men, or which opportunities are made available to us, as opposed to our male counterparts. For we are women. This should be enough for you.

We are all sorts of things: Production assistants! Administrative assistants! Writers’ assistants! So many of us women are assisting! Why, we even sometimes get our jokes on the air! But not our names, apparently, in many cases, or our faces, in all but three cases. Just because our names do not appear on the writers’ credits — just because we do not, as the saying goes, “get credit” for our work — this should not imply to you that our work is not valued! We are women! This is enough!

And now we will declare the end of us posting on this. Because it’s great that there are women at the Daily Show, and we’re sure Jon Stewart is actually a totally nice guy (or is he a dick?), but really, um, women at an organization doesn’t mean women are in power.

-jessica

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