Comedian and writer Diana Wright gathered the data and discovered that of the top 10 highest-grossing comedies each year for the last ten years, only 4.5% of them were directed by women. Pretty abysmal if you ask me. I assume the number of women who wrote those comedies was higher, but I can't imagine by too much. Funny ladies, we've got to break through - I don't know how, I don't know when, I probably know where (Hollywood?) - but we've got to. Clearly, no one's going to do it for us (or, honestly, probably even cares all that much that the current state of affairs is the worst).
Challenge accepted.
[via ThinkProgress]
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