MAKERS: WOMEN IN COMEDY Originally Aired: on PBS and is now being rebroadcast by the network. With the ongoing and now heightened attention to Women’s Rights Movement and recent march on Washington, D.C. It will air, once again, on your local PBS Station this coming Friday March 10, 2017. Check your local PBS Station for the exact time in your area.
Makers: Women in Comedy tracks the rise of women in the world of comedy, from the “dangerous” comedy of 70s sitcoms like Maude to the groundbreaking women of the 1980s and beyond. It showcases the American comedy club boom building to today’s multifaceted landscape and tells the inspiring stories of the female pioneers of the comedy business, like Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman, Mo’Nique, Joy Behar and Kathy Griffin.