Ellen and Rebel Wilson do Salt-N-Pepa’s Shoop. Yes please.
Wanda Sykes showing how funny rape jokes are done (without making the victim the butt of the joke - extra points for drawing attention to the ridiculousness of rape culture).
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Selina Meyer; Season 1
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Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo receiving the Comedy Award for Best Screenplay at the 2012 Comedy Awards (04.28.12)
I have been waiting for this!!
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30 Days of Female Awesome
Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship - Leslie Knope & Ann Perkins
Leslie: Say you had a friend who wanted to do something good but a little risky, and she was kind of nervous about it, and this friend is me. What should I do?
Ann: You should do it, and you should ask your friend to help you because your friend totally has your back. And that friend is me.
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I just want you to know that I will be mean to Jessica if you want me to be.
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A lot of crazy, incredible, over-the-top things happen in Bridesmaids, but the movie really succeeds because the relationship between Kristen’s and Maya’s characters. I love seeing friendships between women realistically portrayed, and that was a beautifully depicted best-friendship — one wasn’t just the sidekick to the other. But then all the characters in the movie were fully formed. I love the scene where we first meet Melissa McCarthy’s character and all Kristen asks her “How’s it going?” and Melissa says it’s going great, but she fell off a cruise ship, she hit every railing going down, a dolphin saved her, and now she has pins in her leg. I knew nothing about Melissa McCarthy until I saw the movie, and as an opening scene for an actress it was just magnificent. The fact that Bridesmaids did as well as it did was an amazing accomplishment. And I love that the movie wasn’t sold as “Get All Your Girlfriends and Go See Bridesmaids!” It was just “Everybody Go See Bridesmaids, It’s a Funny, Awesome Movie.”
Entertainment Weekly’s 2011 Entertainers of the Year: The Cast of Bridesmaids, by Mindy Kaling
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"I’ve now seen ‘Bridesmaids’ five times. It was a huge, great stonking relief to watch a film that made me burst out with laughter, loud snorting (embarrassing on the airplane) laughter — to see a film that moved me and one that has made me pause and rewind and rewatch scenes, to laugh again or to marvel at a moment one more time. At the heart of this incredible cast is Kristen Wiig in a truly brilliant performance. As an actress, I watch agape and in awe as she fearlessly navigates between the most subtle assessment of a bridal rival and, say, wrestling a giant cookie. It’s really really hard to be funny. It’s even harder to do it like Kristen does. We feel every pang of regret, every uncomfortable pause, every wave of nausea, every flutter of feeling and we love her even at her most unlovable. It’s been described as charm but it’s much, much more than that. It’s the tears in her throat when she’s leaving a voicemail. It’s the palpable tension in her body when she approaches a valet at a fancy party in her scrap-heap car and it’s the warmth and nostalgia and heart in her eyes when she looks at her best friend. We love her also because in a world where women are judged ruthlessly on their appearance, she just doesn’t give a shit. She jumps into the deep end of this story and emerges truthful, complex, hilariously funny and beautiful. I hope she is only beginning to blaze the trail for more of the same."
— Carey Mulligan on Kristen Wiig (via charethcutestory)
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There’s definitely a difference with men and women in comedy. If you wrote a list of the last 20 comedies in the past four years, a lot of them are based on a male character. That’s just kind of way that it is. There are some movies that break the mold, but for the most part women in comedies play that lesser role. I think that’s changing, and I think that’s great thing. There are so many funny women out there.
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What are your thoughts on why we don’t see more films with African American women leads?
It’s certainly not for me to answer because I have nothing to do with why the world is as fucked up as it is. It has less to do with TV and movies and more to do with race and history and culture. It’s obviously a reflection of the world we live in[… .]I don’t know the answer to your question and I don’t know if there is one. I plan to keep doing what I’m doing because race is just not a part of the way I look at the world and the way I live my life.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmyr4grP0o1qi7b5jo1_500.jpg)
What are your thoughts on why we don’t see more films with African American women leads?
It’s certainly not for me to answer because I have nothing to do with why the world is as fucked up as it is. It has less to do with TV and movies and more to do with race and history and culture. It’s obviously a reflection of the world we live in[… .]I don’t know the answer to your question and I don’t know if there is one. I plan to keep doing what I’m doing because race is just not a part of the way I look at the world and the way I live my life.
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