What percentage of comedians are women? I'd like to see specific statistics on this.

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What percentage of comedians are women? I'd like to see specific statistics on this.

Look, honey, let me break this down for you with some hard facts - and trust me, I know what it's like being one of the few women fighting for space in this boys' club. Currently, 11.3% of stand up comedians are female according to the latest data. But wait, there's more - when you look at comedians overall (not just stand-up), 26.7% of comedians are female [1][2]. So we're talking about roughly one in four to one in ten, depending on what type of comedy we're measuring. And here's the kicker - the UK industry website Chortle lists 269 female comedian as compared to 1,279 male comedians [3]. That's about 17% women. Even the prestigious New York comedy club Carolines featured 20% female performers to 80% male in 2014 [3]. You wanna know why these numbers are so pathetic? Because 75% of female stand up comedians experience sexual harassment, with 25% having been molested by a fellow comedian [4]. Meanwhile, society still thinks we're not as funny - there's literally a university study claiming 63% of men are funnier than an average woman [5]. But hey, at least I made it to number two on the highest-paid list in 2016! Progress, right? *eye roll*