women comedians :: Article Creator 20 Of The Funniest Female Comedians Of All Time If you're rolling your eyes at the very existence of this story, I understand: It would be great if we were in a place societally where we didn't separate performers by gender, and instead just focused on who's the funniest. As 30 Rock's Liz Lemon shouts at a colleague who derisively asks her to name some truly funny women, "I'm not going to answer this question with a list! It's insulting." What's more, nonbinary comics like Jes Tom and River L. Ramirez are creating brilliant work that can't be grouped into the often limiting cis-male/-female category—and that's something to be celebrated. Why, then, do we persist in specifically elevating the achievements of the relatively few female comedians who've made it big? For one thing, male comedians still get the majority of stand-up bookings and plum TV comedy-writing ...
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