TV Picks: Once upon a time, women were not considered to be the right gender for comedy. Times have changed.Premiering April 7 on Oxygen, new docuseries “Funny Girls” will combine up-and-comers onstage performances with their backstage lives and family relationships, which can often influence the very jokes they tell during their sets. Familiar faces like Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Burr, Horatio Sanz, and Loni Love will appear throughout the series as guest mentors for the six budding comediennes.Watch the trailer for the boundary-pushing series—which stars Scout Durwood, Calise Hawkins, Yamaneika Saunders, Nicole Aimee Schreiber, Stephanie Simbari, and Ester Steinberg—below:“These […]...
- 2/3/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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