![]() ![]() Titters was not the perfect feminist comedy anthology that I had hoped for. The book includes women like SNL performer Laraine Newman, SNL writers Rosie Shuster and Anne Beatts (who also served as the book’s co-editor), satirist (and other co-editor) Deanne Stillman, comic artist Aline Kaminsky, comedian Phyllis Diller, and many more.Īlas, when my inter-library loan copy of Titters finally arrived, few of those hopes panned out. The missing link between the female comedians of the past-Gilda!-and the female comedians of the present whom I worshipped-Margaret! Janeane!-had to be hidden inside this book. ![]() I felt like I had discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls of tampon jokes. Published in 1976-smack in the middle of the both the height of second-wave feminism and the golden years of Saturday Night Live- Titters collected parodies, comics, and humorous writing from some of the biggest female humorists of the era. ![]() When I first heard about a book called Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women, it could be conservatively stated that I just about lost my frickin’ mind. ![]()
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