Women have taken the stage in a way previously unexpected. Women are the new face of comedy and nothing can really stop them. Becoming hit stars women ruled the 1980’s as the funniest thing on television. Betty White, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, and Joan Rivers were some of the largest household names for an entire era. These are only some of the women who paved the road for women as not only actors and comedians in the television industry, in more ways than one. At first in order to be a funny women before them we learned that you had to be attractive, and larger set. These women were none of these, considered extremely beautiful they broke almost all of the rules that were set before, as we learned this week in class. These rules tried to keep women as lesser roles, I think part of the reason why they were so successful was because they broke the rules, it was exciting, new, something never done before: this really grabs people’s attention the fact that they were breaking so many of TV laws of the time.

Off the the horror show now.

Funny women were not the only thing on the rage in this era.  Night time horror hosts were also on the rise. Every large city or area had a host, who would be one thing people tried to stay up to see. These hosts were their guide to the horror movies they watched so people wouldn’t feel alone watching them. It was a greater means of filling up time with original content instead of playing the movies they were sold from Hollywood. Who did so to keep up with the TV explosion that happened. They were desperate for a way to keep making money so one way to do this was to sell a bunch of movies to a TV station who would have the rights to play them for their viewers. Many of the movies would go to one station were the same. Many of the Hostess and Hostess would have no idea what their counterparts only a few cities a few miles away were doing, this lead up to many of the shows having a similar feel accedently.  This hostess phase has mostly faded off I believe. However, there are a few left channel’s that come to my mind other then the news station is Fxx, Discovery channel, each show kind of has its own host, and adult swim each still have a host that kind goes through the show/ movie with the watcher. However, this is a fraction of what they use to get.