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Comedians, Who Happen To Be Women, Discuss The Term “Female Comedians”

A Series of Fallopian Tubes

By Jill PantozziJul 5th, 2013, 1:15 pm

Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious is a new special coming to OWN Saturday, July 13 and features the comedian chatting up fellow funny friends Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith, and Dominique Whitten. In this clip, the women are in agreement – “female comedians” is a term they’d like to see thrown out.

(via Huffington Post)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."