Women in comedy：The last laugh—经济学人

A row over a female comedian reveals a chasm between the sexes恭喜杨笠喜提经济学人，照片都贴出来了呢

Four years ago the stand-up comedian (pictured) riled many Chinese men with a mildly worded ribbing on a streamed show. Her line, “Why does he look so ordinary, but can still be so confident?” remains infamous among touchy male netizens.最搞笑的是四年前记到现在，互联网的记忆不是只有七秒吗，应该把he换成man来翻译才是精髓，杨笠上经济学人了，厉害厉害

But the 32-year-old comic remains a celebrity in China’s stand-up business, which only began to take off in 2009 with the opening of the country’s first clubs dedicated to the art. She has nearly 2.5m followers on Weibo; online videos of her routines have drawn millions of views会越来越好的，加油

But in August stand-up comedy returned to streaming channels with two hugely popular talent shows. Ms Yang was the screenwriter of one of them.“If you’re going to take offence, go and watch something else,” she joked with the audience.很喜欢这句话，还有那句：这是血肉疯长的声音

Only about one-third of the contestants were female. But they caused a stir with jokes about menstruation, gender bias and pressures on women to get married and have children.可惜最后不是女性当冠军，总觉得女性被用来博收视率消费了，不过能有声音发出来也是一种进步

Some men quivered, but officials were probably content. Participants avoided politics or anything bawdy. They clearly knew the bounds. 真的是小心眼，这点就扛不住，我们女性被说了更难听。好了现在上了经济学人，丢人丢大发了