"In the history of the motion picture business, the number of beautiful, really beautiful women — a Lucille Ball — that are funny, is impossible to find," former Disney CEO Michael Eisner said in a conversation about mindfulness, of all things, with Goldie Hawn at the Aspen Ideas Festival. "The hardest artist to find is a beautiful, funny woman. By far." Then he added: "Boy, am I going to get in trouble."
Eisner is not really in trouble. He's merely the catalyst for the latest round of a tired, long-running discussion about women and comedy.
"Are women funny?