The FX documentary Hysterical spotlights a number of fierce female comics who share their experiences of breaking into a field that has traditionally marginalized female comedians in favor of their ...

SXSW: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins' documentary is a fierce, frustrating, and utterly amazing look at the strength of women comics. There have been several documentaries, both large and small, focused on ...

Liz Shannon Miller is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor, and has been talking about television on the Internet since the very beginnings of the Internet. Prior to serving as Senior TV Editor at ...

In 2011, just after the start of the school year, more than a dozen teenage girls came down with a strange illness. The symptoms were curious: stuttering, motor tics, vocal outbursts, even passing out ...

Kelly Bachman is the least established, least known of 15 comedians featured in “Hysterical,” the documentary about women who perform stand-up, premiering Friday on FX. In fact, she was a last-minute ...

Bassist weaves her story with criticism of how society stifles women's voices. In "Hysterical," writer Elissa Bassist shares her "journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't ...