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There's going to be an E4 reality show following students in Leeds trying to join the first UK chapter of a sorority. GOSH.. I kind of feel like I really want to watch it, but I think it might be too embarrassing for me. I need a TV-buddy for times like these, to provide mutual support and soothing me when the cringe is too painful. It's blatantly going to set it up to provoke "catfights" and laugh at attempts at sisterhood. But SORORITY SISTERS. In BRITAIN.

Elsewhere in the Guardian, James Kettle can fuck off:

There are many female performers doing character comedy, but it can be hard to tell which ones have proper comic instincts running through their bones and which are simply aspiring actresses who reckon that what Catherine Tate did looked easy.

If it's hard to tell, then why does it actually matter whether it's innate or inspired? Oh, I see, it's hard to tell without going to see them. Not being able to dismiss a female comedian out of hand without actually watching her material? Madness! Fortunately, male performers of character comedy are all deep-down talented, and not at all inspired by role models. (Unless they're black, I imagine, in which case we can dismiss them as reckoning that "what Lenny Henry did looked easy".)

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Speaking of comedy...you're going to some Fringe stuff aren't you? Or have I made it up? Anyway, my flatmate Ruby is going to be doing stuff there and if you'd like to go and watch and then report back to me what it's like, I'd appreciate it. :)

http://freefringeforum.org/event.php?event=20245&sid=29dce68eaf1f5c3b8ce910c6a7404fd6

I am going to ALL (some of) the Fringe stuff! I shall try to get to see Ruby's show, though I have to say I am not overly enticed by the title.

No, I know - re title. I have only been to see her do comedy once, the first time she did it. I am not good at watching anyone possibly make a fool of themselves, I just get embarrassed. I can't remember much about it other than she wasn't so much doing stand up as she was skits with characters. I'm intrigued to know if she's got any better. (Not that she was utterly dreadful, but it wasn't my cup of tea really.)

I'd want them all to be sweet and lovely, like Elle and the Delta Nus (plus using knowledge of hair care to win law cases) and I bet that isn't what we get.

And I am in total agreement with you re Kettle on the subject of female comedians. I also wonder if it's because when women do something well, it's often put down to being instinctive/intuitive in a light, frothy and superficial way, and not a matter of sweat and graft and other things that exude manliness from the depths of their inner core. Blech.

Oh yes - women's work is just something that they can do well because they are women, and men WORK AT THINGS, and have skill.

I would be up for group reality tv show watching. S is at an age when I can leave her for part of an evening and I'd enjoy the chance to get out :)

That would be lovely! I shall source it and we can fix a time.

Also, regarding stunt children, sadly the show is a) only on when I can't make it and b) strictly no under sixes, apparently. BOO. But another time I shall definitely do some consenusal child-napping.

Kettle: boggle. Perhaps he reckoned that what good reviewers do looks easy. Clearly, he was wrong.

Ha! Quite right.

Oh dear. That sounds horrible. So horrible I've got to watch it. Fingers crossed I can find it online so we can cringe together.

If it's not I can try to put it on rapidshare or something.