The myth that “women aren’t funny” is one of comedy’s oldest, most pervasive, and most exhausting clichés. For decades, comedy, whether on stage, screen, or page, has been framed by a patriarchal lens, relegating women to secondary, often stereotypical, roles like the nagging wife, the ditzy girlfriend, or the butt of the joke. In …
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