8 June 2008
Women in comedy
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Now do you remember back in the 1980s, when that whole new wave of stand-up comedy was sweeping the country? And into what had always been a male domain, women comedians started to gain prominence: people like Wendy Harmer and Maryanne Fahey; and then Judith Lucy. It made you think that in no time at all, female comics wouldn't be such a rare breed anymore; soon no-one would think women couldn't do comedy, because so many of them would be.
Well, that hasn't happened. There's still far fewer female stand-ups on the comedy circuit than male. With this gender imbalance in mind, Gabriella Lahti vists the Comedy Store in Sydney.
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