Adam Carolla says women aren’t funny, except for three of them
Comedian Adam Carolla has always been rather forthright about his disdain for women, but in a recent interview with the New York Post he seems to have taken a proverbial dump where he ingests his food by suggesting female comedy writers are rarely funny and only have their jobs because employers can’t fire them.
From the Post:
The lesson you learned from a sexual harassment seminar was “Don’t hire chicks.” Do you hate working with women?
No. But they make you hire a certain number of chicks, and they’re always the least funny on the writing staff. The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I’m just gonna tell her, “Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you, they can’t really fire you, and you don’t have to produce that much. It’ll be awesome.”
The “are women funny” debate has grown very contentious. You’re not worried about reactions to this?
I don’t care. When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds. When it comes to comedy, of course there’s Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Kathy Griffin — super-funny chicks. But if you’re playing the odds? No.
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they’d be off TV. They’re not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we’d know who she was? Honestly.
Yowza! So what do you think about Adam’s rather brash statements? Is there a reason why there are so many more successful male comedians than comediennes? While you ponder that question over in your brain, take a listen to Adam Carolla offering up his views on women through the years…
