The comics: there is no female humor as there is no male

A few months ago, there was a mess: the manager of the Madrid stand-up comedy room La Chocita del Loro admitted that she did not program comics because her jokes were less liked and she got a sidereal blast.

Since then, it is inevitable to bring the controversy to the retort in any intersection with female monologists, although many are already fed up with the song.

Her response is that the public wants to go out after covid and wants to laugh.

And for that, you don't need men's jokes or women's jokes.

Just jokes or, rather, good jokes.

It is possible that in some theaters there are no women doing comedy, but the list of theaters where there is is long: Palacio de la Prensa, Little Theater Gran Vía, Teatro del Barrio, Muñoz Seca, Fígaro... venues such as Golfo Comedy Club, Cambridge Soho Club, Beer Station and Moby Dick, among others.

The comics are everywhere and they are the new folkloric ones, although, beware, like those, they are not all friends nor are they all the same.

Riot Comedy

Riot Comedy is a show and a production company specialized in comics that was born in 2018 to claim the presence of women in the 'stand up'.

"Today the scene in Madrid is very good but four years ago they denied us the stages. It has been a long fight and although we have not been the first, we are the ones who have burst it", says Penny Jay, creator and founder of the project .

Names have passed through his show that are now in the 'mainstream' of

, such as Lala Chus, Inés Hernand, Henar Álvarez, etc.

"The Riot is a space where we stay together, it's not a springboard. There are those who have used us like that and now they deny it because it's still risky to link yourself to feminism in case you don't get hired," explains Penny Jay.

Riot Comedy now has two shows in Madrid: one is an open mic, where the comedians go up to try out their monologues and the other, a typical show where they fill gig after gig: "We are a revolutionary project, but we have shown that it works: that

's

."

Pillar of Francis

Comedy, thus, in general, is at a good moment for several reasons, according to Madrid-based comedian and screenwriter Pilar de Francisco: "After the pandemic break, people want to go out and demand these shows a lot because for five euros you can see monogols or by 20 if it is someone very consecrated".

In addition, right now in the capital "you don't have to be ultra-famous or appear on television to have a regular show in theaters. Many comedies are scheduled and tickets are sold out," she adds.

Regarding the famous female quota, De Francisco acknowledges that the presence of women is taken care of, although not in a decisive way.

People, she says, look for shows with good reviews, period.

In addition, "the Madrid public is very grateful".

Now, although he writes for the television program 'La Resistencia', collaborates on Cadena Ser and writes for 'El Mundo Today', he has time to shoot his next monologue in the many open mic theaters that Madrid has: "In those We comedians don't get paid for scenarios: we try and polish the jokes until after many months, you have it ready".

feminist comedy

Jessika Rojano, Sil de Castro and La Maria Rosa form the backbone of a "

comedy show " called Calladitas you are more beautiful, whose name already says almost everything that can be said about its intentions.

They started in Barcelona and have tasted the Madrid stages with success.

Theirs started in 2019 as a simple festival.

They saw that they were

and established themselves as a stable project: "We realized that the public wanted to listen to women," says Rojano.

Their show is completed with comedians from the place where they perform, so they practice a kind of zero kilometer comedy.

"Now everything has changed a lot, but there are still gigs in peripheral rooms where they tell me that I am the first woman to act and they have been working for 10 years! Other times they continue to present me as a specialty, not as a comedian, without more" , recognize.

And (ahem) with colleagues, how are you?

"Most of them are normal people, although they get rancid who treat you with condescension or who file you... Hey, we're here to work...", she assures.

Rojano does put

, especially if the target is on the weak.

However, on her shows she likes to laugh at herself as a pure feminist, although she does not make sexist jokes because it would mean perpetuating messages that she prefers to fight.

"We do not make feminine humor, nor is there a masculine one. We need to stop considering the masculine as the universal and the feminine as otherness," she settles.

Patricia Mirror

Patricia Espejo

is another regular comedian on the Madrid scene (The Comedy Club nights) and she agrees that humor made by women being for girls already smells like mothballs.

"All our lives we've all laughed at men's jokes. If I make

about a sanitary pad, why won't they find it funny?" she says.

The bad thing, she protests, is that there is a lack of normalization: "Sometimes they call me because they have been asked for a comic, and I feel terrible," she admits.

Virginia Riezu Romero de Luque

'For a woman you are quite funny' is another title of a show that leaves little doubt about its content.

The creator,

(her new show Sexybilidad, coming soon to her theatres), has taken it to various stages in Madrid and baptized it that way because it was the typical compliment ("poisoned") that they dedicated to her at the end of a performance.

The bad thing, he admits, is that there are those who go to see a woman and if they don't like it, they don't go back to another comedian: "It's as if you don't like a monologue from one of Ciudad Real. see other manchegos!".

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