Name: Is Comedy a Male Dominated Occupation?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Comedy a Male Dominated Occupation?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Comedy a Male Dominated Occupation?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-19. Transcript available.

why do you think comedy is male-dominated or does it feel male-dominated well i
think the
act of comedy itself is extremely masculine thing you're walking on stage and
and you're like yeah
what i have to say is important and you guys will respond to it like the whole
thing is extremely
masculine in itself um yeah it's almost like a combat you're almost going to a
war in a way
yeah it feels like yeah um in combat was stereotypically has always been a male
thing
right kind of you know yeah it's changing yeah you know but i think like if you
look at like kind of
like the arch types or whatever then it's usually a man out there you know yeah
and i think also uh
the the population in the country really i mean it's also changing in this way
because of podcasting and
um online specials and social media and all this stuff but like before i
started comedy i was maybe
aware of five comedians yeah and they're only the top five biggest like you're
not really aware of the
um comedy landscape and so i don't think people really have been exposed to
that um many female
comedians and i don't like to think about it because i don't want to have that
perspective i don't think
it's helpful for me yeah to be like no no one's gonna you know whatever i'm a
pussy but um
i do notice it sometimes like online where you'll see like youtube comments or
something and you're
like oh the rest of the country only thinks men are funny just naturally it's
just like a
misogynist thing yeah and but also who gives a fuck about them you have your
own audience whatever
yeah i think i mean well finding your own audience is key i mean i think
different places i i think
and i don't even know if it's the rest of the country thing i don't know it's
like
it always seems like i here's what i think sometimes is when i think about
male and female comedians i always men it always seems like
they are and maybe this is just because i've seen this in television and film
over the years but
they're like the goofball they're the the fuck you know they're the bat bumbling
you know yeah i know
what you mean and so you don't mind if something happens to the bumbling yeah
you don't mind if that
guy steps in a fire slips on a banana peel for me the thing that always and
this was the same thing
about you watching ufc women i didn't like it at first i didn't like it because
it felt like i didn't
think oh these people shouldn't be able to do this right i think anybody should
do whatever they want
it just was like i always thought of women as like mom yeah exactly and like a
sister right so when you
think about oh man my sister you know it it's a male instinct versus your
sister's getting in a fight
that you help or like and then comedy i always felt like was such an uncomfort
i think also so it was
like man this is so uncomfortable you don't a woman doesn't need to go through
this that's what my dad
said like i should put my like if i see a woman walking on stage i should put
my coat down over like
you know yeah so that she doesn't have to step in the stage you know or step in
the the so i think
there's a lot of that i don't know if it's that for me it was never that women
shouldn't do this
but i did always i think and it wasn't a choice i made no it's an unconscious
bias like for you
you're saying it's like a certain fragility that you're worried about that yeah
i just felt like why
do we like why do women have to do why do they need to uh endure this that's
literally what my dad
said to me like when i first started he's like you're one of the smartest
people i've ever met
why are you choosing to put your life in a basement with drunks and fuck-ups
and i was like fair fair
point you know but also it's just like it is what it is it's like uh like my i
think what you're saying
is totally real like because i feel that way that i'm received that way in
orange county because they
cannot fathom that a woman would not my own focus and priority would not be to
be married with three
kids right now right and like my family's never seen me my brothers have but my
parents have never
seen me do comedy before wow or any of my tv stuff either well here's something
also that happens a lot
of women start doing comedy right and i'm probably gonna receive hell for this
because it's a very it's a
generalization here's something that i sometimes feel could be realistic and i
don't know here we go
um and they and then the first thing they do is beat this woman drum instead of
beating the comedy
drum you know it's like um you mean off stage yeah kind of it's like i'm a
female like somebody will
be doing it a month and they're big and they're just like i you just start
getting into like
this i'm a and i think maybe it was a kind of a fad that happened for a while
it was like um
and maybe women needed to maybe they need to do that to make sure that they're
seen in like a in like
a male dominated environment you know but i feel like sometimes uh people will
lean so much on any
whatever it is that makes them like oh i'm southern or i'm a woman or i was on
fire you know you see
some guy and he's got skin grafts he's like i was on fire you know that's his
big thing and he's like
you know fire shows you know we're doing everybody who's been on fire ever you
got to be on you know
you're on the fire lineup only you know victim you know like somebody you know
neck brace line you
know it's neck brace night it's a fucking um and i don't think it's a bad i'm
not saying it's a bad
thing i don't know what i'm saying exactly i guess i'm saying some people
attach themselves so much to
something that they forget that what they're doing is that we still have to do
the thing yeah i mean
i feel two ways i'm not saying that about you no i don't think you're okay you've
never even seen
me do comedy yeah i wonder if that's true or not i don't think so uh but yeah i
i want to be aware
of shit and sometimes i can feel things like a lot of times when i'm in a green
room i mean less now
that i'm like more known but like immediately when you walk in a green room if
it's like a older comic
or famous they think that you're the girlfriend of another and it's just like
but like that's not
something i'm gonna get upset about but i can feel it immediately when i walk
in yeah it's interesting
it's interesting because i wonder yeah why do i sometimes feel like or what are
some of the things
that make me feel like it's a man sport or that it makes i think yeah i think
those are the things for
me about that it's like there's some fragility to it that you don't want it's
like a i mean i don't
know you well but you seem like the area of comedy that you roll in is hyper
masculine and the people
that you're friends with yeah i guess so yeah i mean i have some female
comedian friends you know um
but i guess yeah i mean i guess more of my comedian friends are probably man
probably
yeah i mean that makes sense yeah are more years women you think uh no i have
like a mix i mean
i always say like i don't really like being a woman the the best part about
being a woman
is female friendship like my girlfriends in comedy are it's just like the best
thing in the world because
we're not really like it's such a uh it's such a distinct uh way of life that
many people don't
understand and especially like growing older as a woman uh people can't really
understand like why
you would want to do it so it's like you're really understand each other in a
way that other people
don't so many people have know nothing about comedy totally you're like in the
world so you know what you
start to like but then there's some people have no idea about like they couldn't
name like chris right
they would just name chris rock like yeah eddie murphy you know they would yeah
they wouldn't know
robin right yeah you know um they have one point of reference like a lot of my
girlfriends uh and i joke
about it but like so many people will be like and they'll be trying to
compliment you but it's
fucking rude they'll be like you're like a more funny amy schumer or like a
less funny amy schumer
whatever it is they're just comparing you and it's like you could just say good
job right
bitch yeah people don't know how i mean i think some people also they just don't
know that much
you know like you're saying if they're trying to give you some people are bad
at compliments
yeah it's always like backhanded or whatever but it's the point is that they
have one woman and she
has blonde hair right and so they immediately they're like i have to make that
association and i have
to tell it directly to this person yeah yeah yeah i wonder what is it what is
that in people that
makes them that makes us feel like we have to do that sometimes i think now
things have been changing
and going in a great direction but like the women before me they always said
like you know they could
be better than some dudes and clubs like around the country wouldn't headline
them because they said
like people wouldn't come you know so it's like based on like but then who's
that is that anybody's
fault though or is that just business like you can't business but it's fucking
dumb because it's not
based on necessarily on talent like when you see like laurie kilmartin when you
watch laurie kilmartin
she's like one of the best joke writers in the country and she just murders and
to think of like
a mediocre dude headlining over her is sad right you know what i mean right but
i think a lot of that
goes to like just business it's the same as like like you could put a ton you
could lay you could put
a uh a lineup and diversify it all you want right but in the end if it doesn't
sell tape people aren't
buying tickets to go see it like if the if the people aren't buying tickets to
go see it then no the
market is dumb right so yeah yeah in the end it's like yeah it just has to be
so meritocracy it doesn't
always figure out i guess then does it no meritocracy is what i mean is just on
stage where you're like
right okay we'll see who's good and who's not oh i've seen tons of people over
the years that get
opportunities because of like nepotism religion um you know like uh certain
friendships that kind of
stuff just happens i think it happens in all walks of life you know yeah yes
like you see but that's
also the thing that makes you keep going like if it if you showed up and just
walked in and were like
hey i'm here and i'm funny and just because i'm black female was in a fire you
know died and came back
to life i love how you keep saying was in a fire as if that was someone's thing
well i'm just thinking
different oh it certainly is man they got all these shows it's like i saw one
one show it was like uh i haven't been going to these shows you've been going
to it's just some
of the things i get you know i get a link or something hey check out this and
it's all like
um like not a not victims of affliction well it's like affliction night i said
publicly do not ask me to
do your all female show that it's like ladies of laughter or some i'm like that
is so humiliating
why don't you just call it look at these clams yapping like i cannot i mean
like i cannot even
fathom that it's so embarrassing well here here's so that here's something that
happens i think
a lot of men also for me i remember like i was so it was so tough sometimes
like um who was i talking
about one time oh nikki glazed when i first heard her act it reminded me for
some reason of my mother
specifically and so i couldn't listen to her comedy in the beginning because
there was just some weird
correlation between like her and what my mom sounded like to me growing up
right yeah it's not that way
now i mean and she know i've talked it's just been like a funny thing but um
and i'm sure maybe
women in weird ways right and girls probably do the same to guys i bet yeah
well and there's also
just a thing of like you know it's good to be able to do well in front of
everyone but there are
demographics that are going to be not more naturally drawn to you and your
material and
who you are and what you're talking about like i don't like right which is
totally fine and that's
yeah like the other night i did a show at that comedy jam jam in the vans so
and then we had a
there was a comedian on the lineup who's a female comedian right she says to me
and the crowd was
pretty diverse she comes up to me after the show she goes hey i just want to
say i saw your crowd
very diverse group you're really doing your job that's what she said to me and
i'm like i will never
work with this girl again for saying that because like you know how hard it is
to get any audience you
think i'm i have to get a certain type of audience like that's fucking crazy to
me like i'm happy to
sell any tickets like now i have to make sure each audience member like this
person you know has a
hat this person has glasses this person's a ginger this person's a filipino
like that's fucking impossible
yeah right like i don't know and maybe i had like i mean i could have had like
an overreaction it just
seemed like and this was a girl who doesn't sell tickets which is fine right
but it was like are
you really telling me like that i have to have now a diet like a diverse
audience like it just
fucking was like that's impossible okay maybe some people it's possible but i
love that you had it and
this is a person who doesn't sell tickets yeah hope you enjoyed that video and
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Is Comedy a Male Dominated Occupation?

why do you think comedy is male-dominated or does it feel male-dominated well i
think the
act of comedy itself is extremely masculine thing you're walking on stage and
and you're like yeah
what i have to say is important and you guys will respond to it like the whole
thing is extremely
masculine in itself um yeah it's almost like a combat you're almost going to a
war in a way
yeah it feels like yeah um in combat was stereotypically has always been a male
thing
right kind of you know yeah it's changing yeah you know but i think like if you
look at like kind of
like the arch types or whatever then it's usually a man out there you know yeah
and i think also uh
the the population in the country really i mean it's also changing in this way
because of podcasting and
um online specials and social media and all this stuff but like before i
started comedy i was maybe
aware of five comedians yeah and they're only the top five biggest like you're
not really aware of the
um comedy landscape and so i don't think people really have been exposed to
that um many female
comedians and i don't like to think about it because i don't want to have that
perspective i don't think
it's helpful for me yeah to be like no no one's gonna you know whatever i'm a
pussy but um
i do notice it sometimes like online where you'll see like youtube comments or
something and you're
like oh the rest of the country only thinks men are funny just naturally it's
just like a
misogynist thing yeah and but also who gives a fuck about them you have your
own audience whatever
yeah i think i mean well finding your own audience is key i mean i think
different places i i think
and i don't even know if it's the rest of the country thing i don't know it's
like
it always seems like i here's what i think sometimes is when i think about
male and female comedians i always men it always seems like
they are and maybe this is just because i've seen this in television and film
over the years but
they're like the goofball they're the the fuck you know they're the bat bumbling
you know yeah i know
what you mean and so you don't mind if something happens to the bumbling yeah
you don't mind if that
guy steps in a fire slips on a banana peel for me the thing that always and
this was the same thing
about you watching ufc women i didn't like it at first i didn't like it because
it felt like i didn't
think oh these people shouldn't be able to do this right i think anybody should
do whatever they want
it just was like i always thought of women as like mom yeah exactly and like a
sister right so when you
think about oh man my sister you know it it's a male instinct versus your
sister's getting in a fight
that you help or like and then comedy i always felt like was such an uncomfort
i think also so it was
like man this is so uncomfortable you don't a woman doesn't need to go through
this that's what my dad
said like i should put my like if i see a woman walking on stage i should put
my coat down over like
you know yeah so that she doesn't have to step in the stage you know or step in
the the so i think
there's a lot of that i don't know if it's that for me it was never that women
shouldn't do this
but i did always i think and it wasn't a choice i made no it's an unconscious
bias like for you
you're saying it's like a certain fragility that you're worried about that yeah
i just felt like why
do we like why do women have to do why do they need to uh endure this that's
literally what my dad
said to me like when i first started he's like you're one of the smartest
people i've ever met
why are you choosing to put your life in a basement with drunks and fuck-ups
and i was like fair fair
point you know but also it's just like it is what it is it's like uh like my i
think what you're saying
is totally real like because i feel that way that i'm received that way in
orange county because they
cannot fathom that a woman would not my own focus and priority would not be to
be married with three
kids right now right and like my family's never seen me my brothers have but my
parents have never
seen me do comedy before wow or any of my tv stuff either well here's something
also that happens a lot
of women start doing comedy right and i'm probably gonna receive hell for this
because it's a very it's a
generalization here's something that i sometimes feel could be realistic and i
don't know here we go
um and they and then the first thing they do is beat this woman drum instead of
beating the comedy
drum you know it's like um you mean off stage yeah kind of it's like i'm a
female like somebody will
be doing it a month and they're big and they're just like i you just start
getting into like
this i'm a and i think maybe it was a kind of a fad that happened for a while
it was like um
and maybe women needed to maybe they need to do that to make sure that they're
seen in like a in like
a male dominated environment you know but i feel like sometimes uh people will
lean so much on any
whatever it is that makes them like oh i'm southern or i'm a woman or i was on
fire you know you see
some guy and he's got skin grafts he's like i was on fire you know that's his
big thing and he's like
you know fire shows you know we're doing everybody who's been on fire ever you
got to be on you know
you're on the fire lineup only you know victim you know like somebody you know
neck brace line you
know it's neck brace night it's a fucking um and i don't think it's a bad i'm
not saying it's a bad
thing i don't know what i'm saying exactly i guess i'm saying some people
attach themselves so much to
something that they forget that what they're doing is that we still have to do
the thing yeah i mean
i feel two ways i'm not saying that about you no i don't think you're okay you've
never even seen
me do comedy yeah i wonder if that's true or not i don't think so uh but yeah i
i want to be aware
of shit and sometimes i can feel things like a lot of times when i'm in a green
room i mean less now
that i'm like more known but like immediately when you walk in a green room if
it's like a older comic
or famous they think that you're the girlfriend of another and it's just like
but like that's not
something i'm gonna get upset about but i can feel it immediately when i walk
in yeah it's interesting
it's interesting because i wonder yeah why do i sometimes feel like or what are
some of the things
that make me feel like it's a man sport or that it makes i think yeah i think
those are the things for
me about that it's like there's some fragility to it that you don't want it's
like a i mean i don't
know you well but you seem like the area of comedy that you roll in is hyper
masculine and the people
that you're friends with yeah i guess so yeah i mean i have some female
comedian friends you know um
but i guess yeah i mean i guess more of my comedian friends are probably man
probably
yeah i mean that makes sense yeah are more years women you think uh no i have
like a mix i mean
i always say like i don't really like being a woman the the best part about
being a woman
is female friendship like my girlfriends in comedy are it's just like the best
thing in the world because
we're not really like it's such a uh it's such a distinct uh way of life that
many people don't
understand and especially like growing older as a woman uh people can't really
understand like why
you would want to do it so it's like you're really understand each other in a
way that other people
don't so many people have know nothing about comedy totally you're like in the
world so you know what you
start to like but then there's some people have no idea about like they couldn't
name like chris right
they would just name chris rock like yeah eddie murphy you know they would yeah
they wouldn't know
robin right yeah you know um they have one point of reference like a lot of my
girlfriends uh and i joke
about it but like so many people will be like and they'll be trying to
compliment you but it's
fucking rude they'll be like you're like a more funny amy schumer or like a
less funny amy schumer
whatever it is they're just comparing you and it's like you could just say good
job right
bitch yeah people don't know how i mean i think some people also they just don't
know that much
you know like you're saying if they're trying to give you some people are bad
at compliments
yeah it's always like backhanded or whatever but it's the point is that they
have one woman and she
has blonde hair right and so they immediately they're like i have to make that
association and i have
to tell it directly to this person yeah yeah yeah i wonder what is it what is
that in people that
makes them that makes us feel like we have to do that sometimes i think now
things have been changing
and going in a great direction but like the women before me they always said
like you know they could
be better than some dudes and clubs like around the country wouldn't headline
them because they said
like people wouldn't come you know so it's like based on like but then who's
that is that anybody's
fault though or is that just business like you can't business but it's fucking
dumb because it's not
based on necessarily on talent like when you see like laurie kilmartin when you
watch laurie kilmartin
she's like one of the best joke writers in the country and she just murders and
to think of like
a mediocre dude headlining over her is sad right you know what i mean right but
i think a lot of that
goes to like just business it's the same as like like you could put a ton you
could lay you could put
a uh a lineup and diversify it all you want right but in the end if it doesn't
sell tape people aren't
buying tickets to go see it like if the if the people aren't buying tickets to
go see it then no the
market is dumb right so yeah yeah in the end it's like yeah it just has to be
so meritocracy it doesn't
always figure out i guess then does it no meritocracy is what i mean is just on
stage where you're like
right okay we'll see who's good and who's not oh i've seen tons of people over
the years that get
opportunities because of like nepotism religion um you know like uh certain
friendships that kind of
stuff just happens i think it happens in all walks of life you know yeah yes
like you see but that's
also the thing that makes you keep going like if it if you showed up and just
walked in and were like
hey i'm here and i'm funny and just because i'm black female was in a fire you
know died and came back
to life i love how you keep saying was in a fire as if that was someone's thing
well i'm just thinking
different oh it certainly is man they got all these shows it's like i saw one
one show it was like uh i haven't been going to these shows you've been going
to it's just some
of the things i get you know i get a link or something hey check out this and
it's all like
um like not a not victims of affliction well it's like affliction night i said
publicly do not ask me to
do your all female show that it's like ladies of laughter or some i'm like that
is so humiliating
why don't you just call it look at these clams yapping like i cannot i mean
like i cannot even
fathom that it's so embarrassing well here here's so that here's something that
happens i think
a lot of men also for me i remember like i was so it was so tough sometimes
like um who was i talking
about one time oh nikki glazed when i first heard her act it reminded me for
some reason of my mother
specifically and so i couldn't listen to her comedy in the beginning because
there was just some weird
correlation between like her and what my mom sounded like to me growing up
right yeah it's not that way
now i mean and she know i've talked it's just been like a funny thing but um
and i'm sure maybe
women in weird ways right and girls probably do the same to guys i bet yeah
well and there's also
just a thing of like you know it's good to be able to do well in front of
everyone but there are
demographics that are going to be not more naturally 