The above might not sound like particularly commendable behaviour, but it’s an achievement of sorts, says film historian Steve Massa. Now, female-fronted comedy means a Bechdel-test-passing bacchanal featuring tequila slammers, toilet humour and absolutely no discernible moral compass. With Girls Trip (starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah), Rough Night ( Scarlett Johansson and Broad City’s Ilana Glazer), Amy Schumer’s recent Snatched and a Bad Moms sequel all due out in the coming months, that has definitely changed. Oopsie!Ĭomedy for and about women once meant dainty romcoms, in which “pretty”, “thin” and “adorably clumsy” were always more important leading lady attributes than “funny”. Meanwhile, a bachelorette party has just wound up accidentally killing the male stripper they’d hired while high on cocaine. These lifelong BFFs are headed to New Orleans with the expressed intention of getting “white-girl wasted” and also “pregnant tonight”. Another is surreptitiously sniffing her pits while strutting to the nightclub flanked by female friends. A woman is freshening up her undercarriage at the sink in a public bathroom when the door unexpectedly swings open.
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