My Letter to Premiere magazine

[bonniegrrl]

If you get the Sept. 2006 issue of Premiere magazine (with Hugh Jackman on the cover) and turn to page 18, you can see my letter to the editor concerning their Masters of Comedy issue, and how it barely mentioned any funny ladies.

Here it is:

Funny Girls

Thanks for interviewing my two favorite iconic ladies of laughs – Lily
Tomlin and Diane Keaton in the Comedy Issue (July/Aug. 2006). But what
gives with only listing two women in The "Masters of Comedy" section?
Where's the nod to the improv queens like Amy Sedaris ('Strangers with
Candy") and Tracey Ullman? Why no love for the great ladies of SNL – Tina
Fey, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon as well as the old school
veterans Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin? Why include actress Cameron Diaz in
the shortlist and but not Joan Cusack or Julia Louis-Dreyfus? And of
course, standup greats (who have all acted in TV or films) like Margaret
Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Kathy Griffin, and the queen bee herself Roseanne
Barr deserved at least a courtesy paragraph!

Next time do us girls a favor -- instead of inserting a few remarks here
and there from a few women, dedicate an ENTIRE issue to the ladies of
comedy. They deserve more than a sidebar for all the side-aches of
laughter they've given us over the years.

- Bonnie Burton
San Francisco