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succeed, “and they were all not oil paintings.”Ībout herself, Rudner has heard TV chiefs say, “She’s not pretty enough” and “She’s too old.” Rudner smiled and shrugged. Rudner saw Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Ray Romano, and Louis C.K. When Rudner was pitching sitcoms and TV shows in the 1990s and 2000s, she found that station chiefs rarely greenlit women-led shows (with high-profile exceptions like Roseanne). “Now, women are allowed to look like real women in movies which is good.” She is heartened by the success of Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Catherine O’Hara, who “star on their own terms in their own movies.” It reminds Rudner of the time when male comics would be partnered with pretty, non-comedian, decorative female foils in major movies. But she is not a comedian, and it’s disgraceful that there is not a female comedian as a judge.” I’m sure she’s a nice woman, and I respect her politics. “There are three judges: Kenan Thompson, who I love, Jeff Foxworthy is a friend of mine, and Chrissy Teigen. Rudner said she was “very angry” about the upcoming comedy talent show, Bring The Funny, on NBC. She holds the record for having the longest-running solo comedy show in Las Vegas history. In 2008, Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas became PBS’ first-ever stand-up comedy special. She has sold out Carnegie Hall, toured extensively, written five books, and created the award-winning show Ask Rita. Rudner was a regular guest on Late Night With David Letterman and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and made HBO specials like Rita Rudner’s One Night Stand, Born To Be Mild, and Married Without Children. (Rudner did not know Rivers well, but they shared a Las Vegas theater for a time, and Rivers would always leave a scarf from her QVC line for Rudner in the dressing room.) A pioneer among female stand-ups, she decided to be a comedian when she realized how few women-Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers prime among them at that time-were working within the craft. The piece sounds very Rudner her humor, pointed and precise, is whimsically sourced in the absurdities of life and relationships. The production is a family affair, with Bergman also directing and producing, and the couple’s 17-year-old daughter Molly working as a costuming intern. Indeed, Bergman and Rudner-married since 1989-have co-written screenplays and now Two’s a Crowd, an off-Broadway play with music (by Jason Feddy) about a male-female odd couple, who discover unexpected depths in each other’s lives and characters after judging each other, variously, as snobbish and stupid.
“I just wish you’d slept with Warren Beatty or something,” Bergman said to her, assessing the non-famous men who came before him-the zinging price of being married to a writer. The comedian Rita Rudner is writing her autobiography, including recalling three significant relationships she had before she met her husband Martin Bergman 35 years ago. Rita Rudner tells Tim Teeman about stand-up success, Hollywood sexism, NBC’s ‘disgraceful’ new show, her Broadway dance years, and why her humor is so different to Amy Schumer’s.
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