Thread: Women cant be sexy and funny (apparently)

Originally Posted by Joshua.De'Lish

My goodness Honey you really sound like her!

I'm loathe to destroy the illusion...but that is her voice, I'm miming

Originally Posted by Khandie Khisses

I attempt to be funny but come off neither fiunny nor sexy. LOL

You crazy lady, you are both! I've seen the reaction you get from the audience, laughter, admiring looks and all

Originally Posted by Honey Wilde

I'm loathe to destroy the illusion...but that is her voice, I'm miming

Well in that case i'm ruddy impressed at how well you mime!

Originally Posted by Joshua.De'Lish

Well in that case i'm ruddy impressed at how well you mime!

Thanks! Lots of practice

Come off it Honey! You know you are biased! I mean we are secretly in love! How else would you explain us following each other around the UK circuit.

*starts singing* I'll follow...I'll follow where you may be....

I love your acts. They are sexy as hell. The man at Burldoir nights who said: 'if my vicar was that sexy I may have sinned alot more! Confession would have been awesome' :twisted:

Absolute rubbish (that women can't be funny AND sexy). If I reeled off all the examples of funny and sexy this post would be even longer than my usual rants lol. But probably one of the best examples of funny, geeky, quirky being sexy is Anna Fur Laxis - watch her [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBg_0QKEdc"]YouTube - Bettie Page Tribute - Burlesque by Anna Fur Laxis[/ame] as just one example or Little Brooklyn (normally I'd state her King Kong/Fay Wray tribute, but just to show you silly/funny can also be sexy here's her [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4S1eIK9ef4"]YouTube - Little Brooklyn Burlesque Performance as Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer[/ame]

It's regularly said that intelligence is sexy and the best comedy is not only very intelligent, well thought out but also timed beautifully.............being funny can be sexy. You just need to practice.

Plus I would say audiences are more there to be entertained than turned on. There are some fantastic perfomers who are just entrancing doing purely sexy, but there are lots of boring routines too that just concentrate on sexy.....you need to be very good and have total self-belief to carry it off. But audiences absolute love comedy, if you again do it well - they want to be entertained.

If you want to do comedy - do your research. Watch what makes you laugh. Question why it does. Watch Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Marty Feldman, Morecambe and Wise, Fry and Laurie (search this website for threads on comedy, we've had lots). I found Rowan Atkinson's video Laughing Matters, explaining how the various types of visual comedy work very very useful. Unfortunately you can't the video anymore, but it is on youtube in 5 parts. Well worth watching and then thinking about how you can put stuff in your acts. I structure my acts to have a minimum of 4-5 'jokes' (even if they're tiny unexpected things) in them - visual ones or audible ones in my tracks and a punchline at the end, even if this is just comedy pasties/tassels related to the act for the final reveal.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9fsn6lQBV4"]YouTube - Laughing Matters Pt 1[/nomedia]

Good luck, looking forward to seeing you perform sometime.

Originally Posted by Khandie Khisses

Come off it Honey! You know you are biased! I mean we are secretly in love! How else would you explain us following each other around the UK circuit.

You cheating on me now Khandie?? lol

Originally Posted by Delilah Dufoe

You cheating on me now Khandie?? lol

She's just sharin' the lovin' DD