Now just to clarify I know that there are some funny women on TV but not many, no where near as many as the menfolk.
Now firstly I am not saying that I am the leading authority on funniness -far from it - I'll show you my level of humour right now with my all time favourite joke ... What's ET short for ? Because he's only got little legs. (Well I LOVE that so there).
The problem I have with comediennes on TV is that I just do not find them funny - Miranda, French and Saunders, Catherine Tate and all the BBCs bunch over the years have not appealed to me in the slightest. Recently there have been a few 'funny ladies' breaking through on shows like '8 Out Of 10 Cats' . Issy Suttie aka Dobby from Peep Show (find her here on myspace http://www.myspace.com/isysuttie) is the kind of woman who I'd LOVE to see representing funny women in the mainstream.
My issue is (and I'm not going to win any prizes for feminism on this one) is that I find the comedians on TV a lot funnier than the comediennes ... Or is that just because for every 10 funny men on TV there is only 1 funny woman ? Papasaurus always rolls his eyes back when a comedienne walks onto to some 'Live at the Apollo' re-run muttering about how she'll only tell jokes about boyfriends and chocolate and in 7/10 instances he's right.
Do funny women really exist - or are they kept in a cupboard fed only on DairyMilk (or some other sterotypical bullshit) somewhere guarded by some burly security guard for the BBC ? Now that right there is a conspiracy theory ...