Reductress

Yeah, the Cracked.com article.

The Cracked.com article, the Reductress articles, all this kind of stuff.

It kind of, like...

The prince was selfish.

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So that set off comedian Dan Levy, who was aghast at what Shane Gillis had to say.

Now, Dan's point about calling women whores for dressing, uh, in gym attire, yeah, it's, uh, not the way that I would've said it.

I also think that, uh, you know, you got a blue comedian talking to a New York crowd at 11:30 at night, like, lighten up, Francis.

But whichever way you take Shane Gillis, half of that joke is about being a dumb, red-blooded man who cannot help but notice when a healthy young woman is dressed in a way that draws attention to just how fit she is.

The other part of that joke is about that healthy young woman dressed in a way that absolutely leaves no question in your mind about how fit she is, videotaping herself in the gym working out, and then putting guys on blast when you catch them in the background noticing the young woman who's dressed in a way that draws attention to exactly how fit she is.

He has been dressed down about it, and she says sufficiently so.

She says it's a lazy delivery, and there is misogyny underpinning it.

Her book of essays that we are here to celebrate today is called Advice No One Asked For.

To her left, Maeve Dunigan is a writer and comedian whose work frequently appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Reductress.

She is, uh, also a performer and co-creator of the comedy variety show Pigeon Presents, and today we are here to celebrate her book of essays and overthinking, as she calls it, called Read This to Look Cool.

Welcome, Jenny and Maeve.

And when they had opportunities to give, I was already standing there with like a full resume.

But also I was writing a reductress during the years before I got The Tonight Show, which was my first TV job.

Doing the years before my TV job, I was writing on Reductress.

I was one of two lead writers at the time.

After Anna Dresden left, they needed two people to fill her spot.

Her enormous shoes.

Truly.

Me and Taryn Englehart were the lead writers on Reductress for a long time, when it was really in its heyday.

She is a writer, comedian, and interior designer in New York City.

She's written for The Onion, Reductress, The Drift, and written, performed, and directed for stage at Upright Citizens Brigade and all the usual comedy theater suspects in the city.

She's been a member of the comedy collective Young Douglas, where she met Carly, for six years, and together they've toured comedy festivals and circuits in New York.

San Francisco, Toronto, and Chicago.