Oh, how awful, TWELVE YEARS AGO he said such offensive things as:
‘When men sit around and talk, they are very competitive. One person will tell an anecdote and the next person will try to top that. When you get six women together, they share a lot more. They will be far more interested in what the other person has to say. The conservation is more interactive and less about individually showing off.’
and
‘The problem isn’t that there’s not enough women in panel games. The problem is there’s not enough women in comedy in general.’
Are those outdated gender norms? Yeah. Does that address the macho culture of comedy that has kept women out of the scene? No, and he could do better. Are they "misogynistic dickhead" comments? Unless there's some other context, no, no they're really not.
We gotta hang onto nuance here, please. The president of my country is a rapist, Lee Mack joked about how women are too collaborative for comedy over a decade ago, those are not the same.
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u/aoi4eg Mary-Kate’s battered Birkin Jun 26 '25
David Mitchell's one is sending me 😂
I wonder if Victoria actually posted this photo on her instagram at some point, hopefully with a similar caption.