Cartoon women are inherently difficult subjects for ... There was a brief moment in animation history when funny and sexy female characters were encouraged though, and that era coincided roughly ...

The New Yorker Magazine began as a humor magazine almost a century ago, and it continues to provide incisive wit in its cartoons ... of Roz for my series on Funny Women, she spoke about the ...

During a Hollywood ceremony on Saturday, the entertainer clarified his comments about female comedians made several years ago. By The Associated Press Jerry Lewis Summer TCA - P 2011 The 88-year ...

And proof there was a place on stage for funny women. She also proved how hard it was to claim it. Although male comics could simply walk out and tell jokes, audiences preferred women to hide ...

It’s a question that, apparently, haunted Phil Witte and Rex Hesner — so much so that they wrote a book about it, “Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons.” Not that it was ...

Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons, left off. I was always aware that there were not many of us in the business...and I think I saw it as a challenge.

Women get more of a buzz out of cartoons, a brain-imaging study has found, with their brains feeling more rewarded by a funny joke than those of men. Women and men are often perceived as having ...

The cartoon is a "mash-up. The first element is surprise. In humor, you need surprise or it's not going to be funny. You also have ... to communicate with a woman. Or, as Mankoff describes it ...

Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy ...