In 1998 Jerry Lewis said that watching women do comedy, “Sets him back a bit.” In 2000 he said in front of a crowd at a comedy festival, “I don’t like any female comedians.” Now, when asked who is favorite female comedians are he replies, “I don’t have any.” In regards to women doing broad comedy, “I can’t see women doing that. It bothers me.” When I first read this I just rolled my eyes the way many of my fellow funny femmes do. We’re used to this sort of nonsense coming from the likes of Jerry Lewis, Adam Carola and some other guy I…
Author: Annie Wood
Annie Wood
Annie was born in Hollywood, raised in the valley. She avoided the valley girl accent by speaking backwards for the first 15 years of her life. As an actress you may remember her in her recurring role on BECKER with Ted Danson, Lara in GOOD LUCK CHUCK and as the host of her own national dating show, BZZZ! which she also co-produced. As a writer, she recently had a comedic scene in the NBC/UNIVERSAL showcase and her web-series, Karma’s a B*tch was chosen by Virgin America as BEST OF THE WEB. Her book of comedic scenes, Snapshots!, has been performed on Hollywood stages and is available on Amazon. She lives in Los Angeles with her charming, Italian husband and her equally charming, Jewish/Buddhist/Italian dog, Lucy & she tweets!
I was 10 years old the first time I saw the movie that was destined to become my all time favorite film. My older brother, Jack, took me to a revival house, handed me some popcorn and Milk Duds and told me, “It’s kind of weird, but you might like it anyway.” He had seen the film when it came out ten years ago in 1971. I sat back as the lights dimmed and the opening scene begins with Cat Stevens’ singing, Don’t be shy, just let your feelings roll on by… while the morbid looking teenager on screen walked…