The Bbc Will Not Make Any More All-Male Comedy Panel Shows.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/08/bbc-comedy-shows-male-panels-female-presence

/// In December, BBC management told programme producers there was "no excuse" for not having women on comedy panel shows after new sex-representation objectives were set by the BBC Trust. In July last year, the Trust asked BBC director general Tony Hall to get more women on air "as a matter of urgency" throughout 2013-14. ///

Will this make them more funny, or is it yet another equality exercise by the BBC?

[chrissa1]

Joan Rivers, Sqad?

[snags]

''How long before Top Gear has a female presenter?''

Er... 'Captain Slow' pretty much fills that gap.

I cannot think of a single female comedian who makes me 'lol'.

[Sqad]

chrissa.....since sp1814's post above....I have been thinking.
Joan Rivers........at a push....she is funny.
Joe Brand........just vulgar......i don't mind funny vulgar, but she is unfunny vulgar.
Helen lederathingmeabob ..can't remember her name...she thinks she is funny.

No, the only one i can think of is Janet brown.

Sorry ladies.

[andy-hughes]

Adding women to the panel shows like QI and Mock The Week will not change them from what they are - giant smug-offs with men using that blokey public bar way of talkint to each other which automatically shuts off the interest, and interest in participation, of a large number of women.

I don't watch any such shows for that reason, I find them both boorish and boring, and can't imagine that the presence of a woman is going to change their intrinsic appeal.

[ummmm]

There are quite a few funny comediennes I just can't remember their names.

[boxtops]

Perhaps that explains why the 3 guests on recent QIs have all been women - Sue Perkins, unfunny Jo Brand, Lisa Tarbuck, etc.

[emmie]

good to have a balance, and i do think sometimes, though not always, having women on panel shows, makes the blokes a little less sexist, noisy, and up themselves, if you see what i mean.

[emmie]

there are any number of good women comics, i like Sandy Toksvig, she is clever and funny, Victoria Coren Mitchell the same, Sarah Millican can be good

[boxtops]

some of the women are even more vulgar, though - depends on the woman. Joak Bakewell on HIGNFY was hilarious.

[emmie]

sometimes they are, sometimes they can play the game better than the guys, Victoria Coren does often.

[emmie]

Sue Perkins is on Q1 quite a lot, but so are Alan Davis, Bill Bailey, Andy Hamilton, Jimmy Carr who i don't find funny, Ross Noble should be on all the time, he is a star act, quietly bonkers.

[jomifl]

and men on loose women?... if you get my drift.

[emmie]

loose women should be given the order of the boot, its not informative, funny or remotely interesting, total waste of time

[Buenchico]

>>>How long before Top Gear has a female presenter?

About 37 years ago actually! Angela Rippon was there at the very start!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLCmOIJLto