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"This is silly. This is really silly, and lucky for all of us, I&amp;#x27;m not going to respond with the level of ire Adam Carolla drew from me some months ago with the whole &amp;quot;women aren&amp;#x27;t funny&amp;quot; thing.But there are a few interesting things about the back and forth I noticed on Twitter yesterday between Deadline Hollywood editrix Nikki Finke and Elizabeth Banks. Nikki wrote the following in light of Julie Bowen&amp;#x27;s Emmy win: Beautiful actresses are not funny. They don&amp;amp;#8217;t know how to do comedy. (As Bowen demonstrated with her acceptance speech that repeated the phrase &amp;amp;#8216;nipple covers&amp;amp;#8217; 3 dozen times. To zero laughter.) Only women who grew up ugly and stayed ugly, or through plastic surgery became beautiful, can pull off sitcoms or standups. Bowen isn&amp;amp;#8217;t a comedienne just like Brooke Shields wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t and a zillion more. Because it&amp;amp;#8217;s all about emotional pain and humiliation and rising above both by making people laugh with you instead of at you. So stop casting beautiful actresses when you should be giving ugly women a chance. (Tina Fey always points out she looked like a troglodyte when she was younger.) This also applies to handsome men, by the way. Now argue amongst yourselves. Elizabeth responded with a blogpost, retorting that: My new movie, Pitch Perfect, features women of every size and stripe and is utterly hilarious. The best part is: it is obvious they are all beautiful. And 30 Rock&amp;amp;#8217;s Kay Cannon, who happens to be a gorgeous woman with a wicked sense of humor, wrote it. I agree &amp;quot;humiliation&amp;quot; can be funny, but it is not a state of being reserved solely for the ugly. This is a subpoint in the &amp;quot;women aren&amp;#x27;t funny&amp;quot; argument that&amp;#x27;s been hit upon by the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (sorry, JGL lovers. He later apologized, if that&amp;#x27;s any consolation.) Personally, I think the whole argument kind of misses the point. Real quick: try to think of a woman in a sitcom, or on any TV show at all, that you legitimately find to be ugly. I&amp;#x27;m not trying to be a pollyanna, but I honestly can&amp;#x27;t think of one. (However, I&amp;#x27;m enough of a pollyanna that I&amp;#x27;d prefer that if you can, say it in your head and not in the comments section.) The thing is: TV and movies, as an experience, tend to present us people who are naturally full of charisma in their very best light and state of grooming. I generally sit there basking in their glow, because that&amp;#x27;s what makes TV a fun leisure activity. Correct? An experiment: just a few women I find funny, all lined up next to each other, looking pretty different, and looking pretty pretty. Note: this is not ALL of the women I find funny. I&amp;#x27;d be here all day, you know? I don&amp;#x27;t care how their God-given or expensively-purchased features are shaped--as a rule, I just kind of love everyone&amp;#x27;s face. (Yep, I&amp;#x27;m using an annoying-girl oversimplification as a legit argument here. Love your face!) But honestly, it&amp;#x27;s the truth. When I think &amp;quot;ugly,&amp;quot; I think dull. Mean-spirited. Flat (personality-wise, not chested.) So to me, there&amp;#x27;s no real debate to be had here: some women are funnier than others, but looks have nothing to do with it. And your reservoir of humiliated memories isn&amp;#x27;t all there is to comedy either, by the way. It&amp;#x27;s an actual art. It&amp;#x27;s a skill. You don&amp;#x27;t get pantsed in first grade and automatically go on to rule the stand-up game. Most people who excel in comedy--or drama--are spilling over with spirit. And, to quote One Direction, since my intellectual credibility is already shot to hell: that&amp;#x27;s what makes them beautiful. What do you think--is there any truth to &amp;quot;pretty&amp;quot; people not being funny? More stuff we&amp;#x27;re buzzing over... You Will Not Want to Miss These Amazing James Van Der Beek Pics Obsessed TV Report Card: The Mindy Project The New Girl DOs and DON&amp;#x27;Ts of Being a Playa Kat Dennings Opens Up About Her New BF, Cupcakes and 2 Broke Girls The TV Shows Celebs Love Watching Check Out Mindy Kaling as Marge Simpson! Obsessed TV Report Card: Partners HIMYM Premiere: Did You Buy These 5 Things? Tina Fey Did Topless Push-Ups Before the Emmys?!? P.S. Want more Obsessed? Sign up for our awesome daily newsletter that features the latest celebrity gossip, TV news, hilarious Internet sensations, and more! Photo: IMDB"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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