Emma Thompson: Women in comedy and her time in the Cambridge Footlights

[NEWS] CU-TV's Ellie Gaunt spoke to Emma Thompson about her time in the Cambridge Footlights and her thoughts about the place of women in comedy now and then.
Interviewer: Ellie Gaunt
Camera: Andrew Gwynne, Genevieve Cox, Madeleine Doutney, Rose Lander
Editor: Ellie Gaunt

[@brad_8711]

Wasn't Maggie Smith briefly in the footlights?

[@fromchomleystreet]

Germaine Greer was in the Footlights in the 60s. That’s just one I know off the top of my head. So Thompson was far from the first fifteen or twenty years later.

[@carlitoab]

Woman don't have to be funny.