Montreal comedians Emna Achour and Coralie LaPerrière created an Instagram account called Pas de fille sur le pacing — No girls in the lineup — as a way to call out gender inequality in Quebec comedy.
“We did it as an answer to us being told that we exaggerate when we say, ‘it’s a problem guys, let’s try to book more women,'” said Achour, a standup comedian, “and people are like ‘no, it doesn’t happen that often,’ so we started this page to be like, ‘here are the receipts.'”
The Instagram page, which denounces “the boys’ club in comedy,” calls out all-male lineups at comedy clubs and events across the province. It has more than 150