Where are all the funny women in advertising?
When Lynne Parker started handling the PR for a comedy club in 1999, she noticed a distinct lack of women on the bill. It was a strictly 'no girls allowed' affair as night after night the stage filled with bawdy men.
“I asked the booker why,” she recalls, “and he said: ‘because women aren’t funny’.”
The comedy world has slowly – begrudgingly, perhaps – changed since Parker’s days in the club, a job from which she was unceremon
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