Daily Show, would you like those receipts printed or emailed to you? (Picture: Getty)

Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan has perfectly crushed claims by conservative website Daily Show that ‘humour is inherently masculine’ by giving them all the receipts to the success of her Channel 4 TV show.

The comedy show, which aired on Channel 4 and is now available on Netflix, is lead for four female actresses and has, according to Nicola, been, drum roll please…

‘Channel 4’s biggest comedy launch since 2004, the most successful comedy launch ever on All 4, the most-watched show in Northern Ireland on record and one of the top 10 Most Watched on @NetflixUK.’

Daily Show, would you like those receipts printed or emailed to you?


Daily Wire host claims "comedy is inherently masculine" and that women are only funny when they're "emulating a man" pic.twitter.com/dUCoS3BrEX — Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) September 5, 2019



The segment appeared on The Daily Wire Backstage, which sees Jeremy Boreing, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and Michael Knowles ‘break down the latest cultural and political events together’.

It was first shared on Twitter by user @JasonSCampbell and Nicola retweeted the video along with the successes of the show.

She added as the final burn: ‘Dusty old dudes forcing me to humblebrag this early in the day, you hate to see it!’

My official statement on Women in Comedy and Unconscious Bias pic.twitter.com/Dkd2PFCcse — Nicola Coughlan (@nicolacoughlan) September 6, 2019

She later added a video, flipping the conversation and its head and reminding men that ‘just because you haven’t proven that you’re funny yet, as men, does not mean that you won’t be’.

‘What people are debating is “are men funny? Why are we even asking that question?”‘ she said, tongue firmly in cheek.

‘It’s so disrespectful because women have been given so much more opportunity on television and on radio and on stage since the beginning of time to show how funny they are.

‘Guys, I want to say to you: Just because you haven’t proven that you’re funny yet, as men, [that] does not mean that you won’t be.’

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Derry Girls was created and is written by Lisa McGee, a Northern Irish stage and screenwriter who also wrote for BBC shows Being Human and The White Queen.

The show is set in Derry in the 1990s as Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), their friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), and Michelle’s English cousin James (Dylan Llewellyn) attempt to go to school and live normal teenage lives all while the Troubles continue around them.

It has won British Screenwriters’ awards, British Comedy Guide awards, and Royal Television Society awards, and has been nominated for a BAFTA TV award.

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