Funny Females

There is something in the culture going on...I can smell it. No, it isn't that come November, there will be an African American in the White House. It was inevitable, given America's history, and how God seems to enjoy irony, such a day would someday come. But by no means was it certain - or even predictable - that women would suddenly become the tip top cutting edge of comedy in America.

If you haven't guessed it yet - I just saw House Bunny. It was funny. I cried laughing in one scene. And it wasn't just Anna Faris. Emma Stone is freaking hilarious.

This is not the Elaine in Seinfeld phenomenon. Elaine was a very funny female character. But any Seinfeld aficionado knows they had incredible trouble writing for Elaine and basically copped Jerry and George storylines and just gave them to Elaine. No, Elaine was a female Jerry/George amalgam...incredibly well acted by Julia Louise Dreyfus, don't get me wrong, but she was female comic relief in an essentially male show.

House Bunny is different. This is a girls movie. It fails sometimes - it is not great - but like early Adam Sandler movies, if you allow yourself to get sucked it my some silly laughs, eventually it'll catch you and the weirdness takes over. It isn't quite the female Revenge of the Nerds, but it's in the ballpark.

For anyone who knows me or reads the blog, you need not hear any more praise of 30 Rock, the best show on television, also driven by a female creator.

So what you have this year - in 2008 - is the funniest movie and the funniest TV show both created by females. Talk about socially conscious. I for one expected to see a female president long before this...