Chick Flick?

          As Melissa McCarthy hosts Saturday Night Live for her second time this past Saturday, it sparked my interest to write a blog about her and women in comedy.  As an overweight woman comedienne, she constantly uses to weight to get a laugh from people.  On SLN this weekend she did a sketch where she plays a woman interested in starting a business for eating people’s left over pizza.  This sketch would not have worked had she not been an overweight actress.  In Bridesmaids, her weight adds to the comedy as she plays an overly sexual woman.  Her part works well and it can be argued that she is the best part of the movie.  With Bridesmaids in mind it brings me to my next point, are women funny?  In another class of mine we have to act out a movie or tv show where there is a conflict and then figure out a way to solve that conflict.  When Bridesmaid was brought up the boys immediately shot the idea down saying the movie “wasn’t funny”.  As soon as that statement was made I started quoting the movie and the boys starting cracking up.  So if the quotes are funny then why don’t they think the movie’s funny?  I actually went and saw Bridesmaids with one of my guy friends and he also said the movie wasn’t funny and that it was a chick flick.  Now this is something I don’t understand.  A movie with all women as the lead roles is a chick flick and not funny.  I don’t know about everyone else but when I think of a chick flick I think of The Notebook or Dear John.  Movies where there is love, romance and crying, not a movie like Bridesmaids.  Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy kill it in Bridesmaid and on SNL.  I think they deserve more credit than they actually get, women ARE funny.