Funny, Sexy Women and Vanity Fair

[Tobias March]

Today marks a first for me. The first time I have bought an issue of Vanity Fair. The first time I have paid for anything done by Annie Leibowitz. But I couldnae help it! :)

http://i28.tinypic.com/wckcqr.jpg

Okay a year's delay in response to Christopher Hitchens' claim that women can't be funny, but Tina Fey is my nerd queen (...sorry Gail) and Sarah Silverman is confounding critics, Amy Poehler is GOB's wife.

More than a sign of gender equality today, I read this as a depiction of three of the funniest performers in the business bar none. Plus much as I dislike Leibowitz' marble beauties usually and celebrity tat - I love Fey's expression. It ironises the whole Greek Goddess malarky on display :D

[Infra-Man]

Need to check that new Vanity Fair out and Christopher Hitchens' original article. I have a begrudging respect for the acerbic, chain-smoking, drunk, hawkish, Trotskyist, George Orwell-fan boy, Kingsley/Martin Amis wannabe, hardcore atheist that is Hitchens.

In any case, this thread needs more Amy Sedaris
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061004/244.sedaris.amy.100206.jpg

[Tobias March]

Need to check that new Vanity Fair out and Christopher Hitchens' original article. I have a begrudging respect for the acerbic, chain-smoking, drunk, hawkish, Trotskyist, George Orwell-fan boy, Kingsley/Martin Amis wannabe, hardcore atheist that is Hitchens.

Hitchens is the 'intellectual', version of the village bicycle. Everyone's had him. If you had a conversation with him, you'd probably catch mimetic herpes.

[Charles RB]

Sarah Silverman

I watched the first episode of The Sarah Silverman Show with the sci-fi society here.

The society president immediately after banned it from being shown ever again, and he was right to do so.

[Rattlehead]

I watched the first episode of The Sarah Silverman Show with the sci-fi society here.

The society president immediately after banned it from being shown ever again, and he was right to do so.

HaHa! I love that show. It's juvenile, it's crass, it's offensive, it's painfully low-budget, it's mean-spirited, sometimes it's just plain dumb, and it revels in all of it.

[Tobias March]

I watched the first episode of The Sarah Silverman Show with the sci-fi society here.

The society president immediately after banned it from being shown ever again, and he was right to do so.

Get them to show the episodes of Star Trek Voyager that feature her ;)

[diana_fan]

HaHa! I love that show. It's juvenile, it's crass, it's offensive, it's painfully low-budget, it's mean-spirited, sometimes it's just plain dumb, and it revels in all of it.

I agree. It's absolutely horrible, and I love it for it.

[Dazzler]

In any case, this thread needs more Amy Sedaris
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061004/244.sedaris.amy.100206.jpg
As much as I love the three funny ladies of topic...YOU, sir deserve a prize for reminding everyone of the true queen of funny. Thank you.

--Dazz

[Aggie]

Need to check that new Vanity Fair out and Christopher Hitchens' original article. I have a begrudging respect for the acerbic, chain-smoking, drunk, hawkish, Trotskyist, George Orwell-fan boy, Kingsley/Martin Amis wannabe, hardcore atheist that is Hitchens.

In any case, this thread needs more Amy Sedaris
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061004/244.sedaris.amy.100206.jpg

woo hoo jerri blank...:D

amy sedaris is the personification of funny...

i totally need this issue especially since i missed the hollywood issue, sorry tobes but i love lebowitz's stuff...

[Dazzler]

woo hoo jerri blank...:D

amy sedaris is the personification of funny...


HIGH FIVE.

And my all time favorite Jerri quote: HOW DARE YOU....thatdoesmakesense.

EDIT: I shouldn't have changed my avvie! Dammit..we coulda been rockin' that look together!

--Dazz

[Aggie]

HIGH FIVE.

And my all time favorite Jerri quote: HOW DARE YOU....thatdoesmakesense.

EDIT: I shouldn't have changed my avvie! Dammit..we coulda been rockin' that look together!

--Dazz

dude...i have a jerri blank avvie too, but since it's dazz week, i'm making the switch...but it's funny cuz i actually yanked it up on sunday...we are soooo simpatico...:)

my all time jerri quote, well packing a musket isn't exactly a quote as it is the awesomest poem ever written...

[Dazzler]

dude...i have a jerri blank avvie too, but since it's dazz week, i'm making the switch...but it's funny cuz i actually yanked it up on sunday...we are soooo simpatico...:)

my all time jerri quote, well packing a musket isn't exactly a quote as it is the awesomest poem ever written...

PACKING A MUSKET!!!! Oh yes. Oh yes.

We have to stop sharing brains or the world will explode, I'm telling you.

--Dazz

[BnL]

Okay a year's delay in response to Christopher Hitchens' claim that women can't be funny...

What a fucking douche bag.

As for other funny ladies, I'll add Tracey Ullman to the list. Can't wait for her new show!

Also, Lisa Kudrow. I've never watched even an episode of Friends, but she was brilliant on The Comeback.

[Aggie]

PACKING A MUSKET!!!! Oh yes. Oh yes.

We have to stop sharing brains or the world will explode, I'm telling you.

--Dazz

yeah, cuz i'm already renting mine out to 3 other people and boy is it getting crowed in here...;)

i could talk about SWC for days..."Faaandangoo...hobo-camp, is it hobo
camp??"

[Aggie]

What a fucking douche bag.

As for other funny ladies, I'll add Tracey Ullman to the list. Can't wait for her new show!

Also, Lisa Kudrow. I've never watched even an episode of Friends, but she was brilliant on The Comeback.

it's a shame the rest of that show was crap...but yeah tracy ullman is great...i like to remember when joan rivers was funny, i mean back in the day when she'd fill in for carson i rather watch her than him...having said that, don't think she should ever be photographed...*shudders*

[scout1279]

Need to check that new Vanity Fair out and Christopher Hitchens' original article. I have a begrudging respect for the acerbic, chain-smoking, drunk, hawkish, Trotskyist, George Orwell-fan boy, Kingsley/Martin Amis wannabe, hardcore atheist that is Hitchens.

In any case, this thread needs more Amy Sedaris
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061004/244.sedaris.amy.100206.jpg

All threads need more Amy Sedaris!

I never heard about the Hitchens article. I do remember Jerry Lewis making the same claim years ago. It's such a bullshit claim.

[Aggie]

http://static.flickr.com/111/299016784_ffacd9ad90_o.jpg

there ya go...:D


by the way, this book is so awesome!!

[beetlebum]

What's wrong with Vanity Fair? Aside from The Economist and Q magazine, it's one of my favourite magazines. And aside from Londonistan, Christopher Hitchens should do us all a favour and keep his gob shut. It just seems like every time he opens his mouth, a crow flies in. Whether it's criticizing Mother Theresa, or claiming women are just not funny, he should just learn how to shut it. Or at least think before he speaks. I can't stand him.

Oh, and hot guys can be on the cover of Vanity Fair too:

http://www.mondowendell.com/wn/ferro.jpg

e' tanto ti amo. *Loving Sigh* *Swoon*

[Tobias March]

What's wrong with Vanity Fair?

I'm currently engaged in an argument with my girlfriend on facebook on this very point - but I'll be brief :) I've never read Vanity Fair, so I don't know if I could criticise it, but Annie Leibowitz is someone whose work I'm familiar with. My job involves photography occasionally and my boss is a big fan of hers, so I've seen a lot of her stuff and talked to him about her frequently.

Now her and Susan Sontag were possibly the coolest couple ever - BUT - while I respect her talent, and she has an amazing gift with the camera, I cannot abide her marble skinned celebrity portraits. I see them as less photography and more a sustained echo of Hollywood narcissism somehow captured in a camera lens. A projection of self-indulgent fantasy. I prefer her older stuff, but I'm seeing a recurring theme in her covers. The marble skinned screen heroines (Reese Witherspoon, Keira Knightly, Scarlet Johansson's ass...) it's just beginning to wear on me. The Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes cover with their infant baby was a millimeter away from a typical Hello cover.

I just don't see her producing art anymore...they're like stylized casting headshots.

Hmmm....I might edit this down for the ongoing debate ;)

[beetlebum]

I'm currently engaged in an argument with my girlfriend on facebook on this very point - but I'll be brief :) I've never read Vanity Fair, so I don't know if I could criticise it, but Annie Leibowitz is someone whose work I'm familiar with. My job involves photography occasionally and my boss is a big fan of hers, so I've seen a lot of her stuff and talked to him about her frequently.

Now her and Susan Sontag were possibly the coolest couple ever - BUT - while I respect her talent, and she has an amazing gift with the camera, I cannot abide her marble skinned celebrity portraits. I see them as less photography and more a sustained echo of Hollywood narcissism somehow captured in a camera lens. A projection of self-indulgent fantasy. I prefer her older stuff, but I'm seeing a recurring theme in her covers. The marble skinned screen heroines (Reese Witherspoon, Keira Knightly, Scarlet Johansson's ass...) it's just beginning to wear on me. The Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes cover with their infant baby was a millimeter away from a typical Hello cover.

I just don't see her producing art anymore...they're like stylized casting headshots.

Hmmm....I might edit this down for the ongoing debate.

Ahhhh, I see! So it's not so much the content, but a single person! Okay, gotcha. ;)

I hope the argument doesn't end ignominiously, and at the end of it, you won't end up in the land of passive-aggresiva. Trust me, living here is not a whole lot of fun. :rolleyes:

[Charles RB]

It's absolutely horrible

I agree, and that's why I hate that waste of film.