Farnan’s comic take on feminism

The market research people would struggle to find the demographic that Keith Farnan is aiming for with his latest comedy show, but that’s kind of how he likes it. The show is an exploration of feminism entitled ‘How much is that woman in the window?’.

“It’s almost a lose-lose situation. It’s a guy doing a show about women’s rights so you’ve got the men looking at you funny going, ‘Is this the kind of thing I’d go to on a Friday night?’ And the women looking at you suspiciously: ‘Let’s just see what you have to say for yourself.’

“It’s funny — there are a lot of women comedians coming through and very few of them are political. It’s very hard for women comedians to talk about women’s rights without everyone just rolling their eyes. It’s a hard enough industry to get into at any rate without boxing yourself into a corner. I can see why they’d want to avoid that. But it’s something that I wanted to talk about.”