“Late Show” Booker Fired For Sexist Comments About Women Comedians

5:45 pm, January 17th | by Amy Tennery

“The Late Show With David Letterman” has fired its head comedy booker, Eddie Brill, after he told The New York Times he believes women comics are less “authentic” and that they “act like men” to “please an audience.” This was said during an interview for a profile about himself.

Apparently CBS is keeping pretty mum about the firing, but The Wrap reported that he’s definitely on his way out, with “The Late Show” looking to scrub its image a tad.

Brill, a legend in the industry, had been booking comics on the Letterman show for around a decade. And in the last year he’d booked just one woman out of a total 22 comics, according to The Wrap.

It’s nice to know that sexism isn’t tolerated at the “Late Show”… when it’s mentioned in the Times.

TAGS: eddie brill fired | eddie brill late show | eddie brill women comedians

robert pacilio

he should be fired for telling the truth about how he feels ,,america free country,,RIGHT
arugula

He didn’t just expreess his opinion. He ACTED on his own personal predjudice to shut females out of the show. What he got fired for booking only one female comic out of the the 22 he has booked over the past year alone. I wonder how many great women comics he didn’t book because of it. I look at his picture and can’t help but wonder how many women rejected his ugly mug and how much of his booking job was his brand of payback…. You have to admit he is pretty unappealing to the eye.
arugula

oops… posted by accident before editing… sorry…
Anonymous

The reality is there are not a lot of great women comics. The women comics that do make it are mediocre for the most part. The greatest comics have been men, because the lives of men provide better material for self deprecating humor.

I think this come about because it’s men who beg women for dates, men who work hard to please women, it’s men who are judged harshly for failing to be good enough for women. If a women got on stage and said she was ugly and nobody wanted her we would feel sorry for her. If a man got on stage and said the same we would laugh at him. Men are just better suited to be both the target of humor, and also the source of it.

I am not discounting the ability of women to be funny in other contexts. I think women are equally funny as comedic writers and actors, but not so much at stand up.

Notice how many of top female comics are lesbians (Wanda Sykes, Ellen, Rosie O’Donnell, etc… I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
http://profile.yahoo.com/FI4CGZJ3K2NQTZGQNEKEFZ3JHM Marcia

’ll spare you the details, but let me say this. Though he lives 200
miles away—and I haven’t been in the same room with him for more than a
decade—I know what he looks like naked. And sure, maybe he knows some
choice details about me too, through not-so-innocent phone conversations
and texts.
http://profile.yahoo.com/FI4CGZJ3K2NQTZGQNEKEFZ3JHM Marcia

’ll spare you the details, but let me say this. Though he lives 200
miles away—and I haven’t been in the same room with him for more than a
decade—I know what he looks like naked. And sure, maybe he knows some
choice details about me too, through not-so-innocent phone conversations
and texts.

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