Sunday, January 11, 2009

Female Comedians

I realized that in my last comedy post there were no ladies mentioned. I do think women can be funny, but I will take Zach Galifianakis over Sarah Silverman any day. However, here are two women who knock my socks off.

Amy Sedaris

Her about me's on her website, for example, are very funny:
"She really wanted some Vicodin one Christmas Eve. Upon walking out of her apartment on a search for it, she ran into a woman on crutches--who took her up to her apartment and gave her Vicodin. Amy calls it the 'Miracle on Christopher Street.'

Everything in Amy's apartment comes alive at night. Even her dustpan, which is known to be a real pain the ass.

In Fall 2003, she started an amateur craft club called The Crafty Beavers. She's the club president and they meet on a weekly basis. Felt is their medium of choice, and it's largely an excuse to smoke pot.

She once made a Visine-laced cocktail because she heard it would cause instant diarrhea, and she wanted to see for herself if that was true. It was.

She makes seasonal hats for her taxidermied squirrel, Winks, such as a pilgrim's buckle hat for Thanksgiving, and Indian headdress for an Indian summer.
When she was about 12, she'd dress up, call her father at work and proposition him, pretending to be a woman from the art gallery that her family frequented. The charades went on for a while, and her dad always fell for it."

Sarah Haskins
She collects clips of commericals which target women, and basically makes fun of them. She's getting popular, too. You can find the rest of her videos here: http://jezebel.com/tag/sarah-haskins/
The cleaning one:

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