America's highest paid comedians in 2018 were all either dudes, or dudes holding puppets
Forbes released its annual list of the top-ten highest-paid comedians in America this week, and it turned out to be another good year for those two most highly relevant of cultural demographics: Dudes, and dudes who stick their hands up puppets’ butts and make them talk. The list—topped, as usual, by Jerry Seinfeld, who brought in $57.5 million this year—contained zero women, of course, but two different ventriloquists: Jeff Dunham ($16.5 million) and Terry Fator ($18 million). We’re not mathemagicians or anything, but we’re pretty sure that means America values Dunham holding up a racist chili pepper on a stick infinitely more than it does the planet’s funniest women—twice.