Lucy Beaumont has called out comedy nights for not including women on their line ups (Picture: Ashley Coombes/Shutterstock for)
Lucy Beaumont has called out comedy nights for not including women on lineups.
The 41-year-old comedian took to social media to ask a number of comedy nights where all the women are on the lineups, as she screenshotted and brilliantly took down their male-dominated upcoming events.
‘Where’s all your women?’ asked the Meet The Richardsons star in her main post on X, which went on to fume: ‘Basically you can search every city for comedy this month I reckon about 90 percent have either no women or woman on the bill.
‘Some have one woman a month!! Back to 15 years ago and don’t get me started on tv panel shows ! It’s become okay again.’
She continued: ‘Let’s just call “most” of them what they really are – male panel shows that book a woman and male comedy clubs that tolerate women, the banter changes, the atmosphere becomes competitive and women don’t grow or shine or get equal employment.’
The Hullraisers actress then singled out a number of comedy clubs and nights around the country who don’t have a proportionate amount of women – if any – in their upcoming shows.
The comedian singled out various comedy nights and asked them: ‘Where’s all your women?’ (Picture: BBC/Zeppotron/Brian Ritch)
‘No women available for this night in Manchester,’ she wrote, sharing a screenshot of The Bierkeller in Manchester’s Saturday September 14 lineup, which included the male comics Mick Ferry, Ray Bradshaw, Connor Burns and Danny McLoughlin.
‘Back to 15 years ago one woman on the bill,’ she pointed out sharing a screenshot of The Comedy Store’s line-up this weekend which featured men Emmanuel Sonubi, Chris Kent, Nabil Abdulrashid and Tom Ward alongside the only female comic in Jo Caulfield.
‘Where’s all your women?’ Lucy said again alongside a screenshot of The Glee Club Birmingham’s Friday September 27 comedians, including Josh Pugh, Mark Maier, Jonny Awsum and Joe Kent-Waters, as well as a show from Robin Morgan.
Lucy repeated, ‘Where’s all your f***ing women? and linked to Hot Water Comedy Club’s comedy page – where there is quite literally not a woman in sight.
On their live comedy events line up, the club has a huge plethora of male comics lined up – Paul Smith, Tony Carroll, Danny McLoughlin, Alun Cochrane, Michael Shafar, Sam Avery, Adam Anwar, Dion Owen, Glenn Wool, and Larry Dean, just to name a few – but absolutely no women.
One person commented with a misogynistic comeback and suggested men are simply – on the whole – funnier than women.
‘Lucy Lucy! Sex is irrelevant, being funny isn’t,’ the X user wrote. ‘There aren’t many funny women, there actually aren’t that many funny men. Just a few more funny men than funny women in my honest opinion.’
To this, the star expertly retorted: ‘2024. Comedy and being funny is an emotion, monkeys do it.
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Source:: Metro
