Katherine Heigl Has No Sense of Humor
December 3rd, 2007
By: Melysa
After “Knocked Up” catapulted her to the A List, actress Katherine Heigl is now whining about the film having been sexist and therefore, hard to put up with at times during filming. As told in the Jan. 2008 issue of Vanity Fair:
Heigl says the film is “a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
Oh, honey. The reason you think it portrays women as humorless, uptight shrews is because you are a humorless, uptight shrew. Portrays a killjoy? You mean, portrays you?
Anyone with a sense of humor realizes that it was, in fact, a comedy. And as a comedy, like earlier mentioned, most of the characters and their interactions with one another are just that… exaggerated.
There is a reason 99.7 percent of female comics suck so bad, because the average woman can’t take a joke– mainly jokes about women, that is. Instead they whine or make it a platform for their overly sentimental feminist views.
This is one of the many reason I love Margaret Cho, Sarah Silverman, and Chelsea Handler– because these are females who can make fun of anyone, including not just other females, but themselves.
You read the script, did you not? And you accepted it willingly, did you not? Than shut your damn pie hole and be grateful the rest of the world has enough sense to laugh at what is clearly meant to be taken as a comedy. You made quite a pretty penny from “Knocked Up”, now I wouldn’t be so quick to go and bite the hand that feeds.
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amen! i actually like katherine so it bums me out to read that she said that. i’m glad chelsea handler is finally getting some recognition these days. i remember watching her on “girl’s behaving badly” years ago. bitch is hilarious!
Actually, I found it refreshing to hear her voice exactly the concern I had when I saw the film. I do have a sense of humor despite being female (last I checked, my vagina doesn’t prevent me from laughing), and I really enjoyed the movie. However, I had a nagging feeling that though the actresses in it were really funny, they were funny by portraying women as shrews. Maybe the problem is just that it was written by a man who couldn’t quite get into the woman’s side of that situation 100%. That’s not something I can fault him for entirely, I could never completely understand the male point of view, just due to a necessary lack of experience in that role. Overall, I felt it was well-written, but if he’d pulled in some advice from women, it could have been improved.
I also find the comments strange that most women aren’t funny. I’ve heard that sentiment before, but have never noticed women getting less laughs than men in social events I’ve attended. My absolute funniest friend is female, and she’s successfully using that humor in her professional life. I know anecdotes don’t count for much though, and that there are many more well-known male comedians than female ones. However, I think that comedy is just another one of those male bastions that women are still slowly breaking into. If the establishment in a given field is male, and they’re convinced that women aren’t funny… isn’t it conceivable that women will be judged more harshly and pushed out of the field?
It might be easier for feminists to grow the sense of humor like you want if there weren’t still so many men out there throwing around clearly sexist statements like yours. Nobody would tell African-Americans to just grow up and laugh it off if if someone made a statement like “Black people are just inherently not very good at _______” Why do you think women should?
She’s an ungrateful hypocrite. The movie isn’t portraying women under bad light, she is.