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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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37. I haven't read it, but I want to

Wed Sep 16, 2015, 04:46 AM

Sep 2015

I don't think she was implying laziness, just that a high performing female comedian might be presented with different opportunities and not necessarily worse one.

One of her projects that went nowhere was trying to get an actress who was on a popular 90's sitcom to cover a talk show over the summer. She showed me the screen test and some mock interviews and they really were great. The actress completely improvised three different monologues and interactions with a house band of cardboard cutouts. But at the end of the day the actress didn't see much of a point in doing it. It was just a couple months she wasn't available for filming and even if she really killed it and was offered the real thing, she wouldn't have wanted it.

Whereas you take a dweeb like Jimmy Kimmel or Conan as NBC found him probably didn't have any better prospects and were just lucky to get it in the first place.

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I tink Tina Fey covered this aspect of show business really well in Bossy Pants..... bettyellen Sep 2015 #36

I haven't read it, but I want to Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #37

I agree about Conan and Kimmel being dweebs. Which begs the question why there are no female dweebs bettyellen Sep 2015 #38

Different opportunities aren't nessisarily unequal or lesser ones. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #39

we are talking about this specific opportunity - and why it is so often given to mediocre men. bettyellen Sep 2015 #40

I didn't say they are mediocre, I said they are dweebs. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #41

those dweebs are actually pretty mediocre. but you have a bagful excuses that make no sense, so lets bettyellen Sep 2015 #42

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if the logic was consistent, I'd buy it. As I said, I think Tina Fey nailed it pretty well. bettyellen Sep 2015 #45

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