Jeff Dye

It's because they realize, oh, if I work as hard as I can, maybe in wherever they live, India or some of these other places, it's not a promise that they'll succeed.

But they love a capitalistic America where like, yeah, if I put in the work and my kids put in the work and I force my kids to put in the work, it'll work.

Yeah, exactly.

I think about it every week almost.

It sounds strange, but, like, these kind of things consume me.

I don't have a wife and kids, you know?

Like, I think about these things all day.

But, like, I think about it with, like, in our business, you know?

Like, there are so many women who complain, like,

Oh, no girls on the lineup or only two girls on the line.

And I'm like, there's less of you.

That's all it is.

In fact, the fact that there's less of you in our industry is why you're able to stand out and succeed so much quicker than your male counterparts.

So, yes, it can feel like a boys club because it is.

There's plenty of disadvantages to being a female comedian like that.

putting up with these comedy club owners or working the road or like it is their fans being creepy with creepy fans did they're different like a hundred percent and I'm sympathetic to the things female comics have to go through but if they just don't understand the numbers like there's there's girls in Los Angeles who are regulars at the improv and the laugh factory and the comedy store who have been doing it a few years and

And then there's guys that I know that have been doing it 15 years who, you know, subjectively are very, very funny and subjectively funnier than them, but at least inarguably funny.

And they can't get any spots at these places because we need more women comics.

I mean, we need more diverse lineups.

They've literally said that.