Fat crude scruffy dudes ending up with smoking hot chicks is not just Apatow's formula, but pretty much the norm across movies AND television. King of Queens, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Drew Carey Show, and so on and so forth. There are comparatively few roles where heavy women even make the cast, much less a lead role. Roseanne--but she had an equally fat husband. The Parkers--but Mo'Nique keeps chasing after a man who doesn't want her.
I'd definitely pay to see a movie like that, I KNOW there are funny scruffy crude self-deprecating heavy women out there (fuck, I am one), but I think it has a lot to do with who signs the checks. They don't want to pay to see fat women do *anything*. Fat on women is treated differently by the majority of society then fat on men. Fat men are funny. Fat women are gross. If a man hooks up with a fat chick in a movie, it's for comic relief, it's 'disgusting'. If a fat man hooks up with a smoking hot chick, well, that's the natural order.
I tried for a while to break into stand-up comedy. Granted, I might not have been the funniest (a comic is never the best judge of their own jokes), but it's interesting how *I* was recieved versus a comic dude of similar size. On youtube, they'd talk about how his jokes were not funny. They'd slam my looks instead, because as a woman, apparently my looks are supposed to be the most worthwhile thing about me.
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I'd definitely pay to see a movie like that, I KNOW there are funny scruffy crude self-deprecating heavy women out there (fuck, I am one), but I think it has a lot to do with who signs the checks. They don't want to pay to see fat women do *anything*. Fat on women is treated differently by the majority of society then fat on men. Fat men are funny. Fat women are gross. If a man hooks up with a fat chick in a movie, it's for comic relief, it's 'disgusting'. If a fat man hooks up with a smoking hot chick, well, that's the natural order.
I tried for a while to break into stand-up comedy. Granted, I might not have been the funniest (a comic is never the best judge of their own jokes), but it's interesting how *I* was recieved versus a comic dude of similar size. On youtube, they'd talk about how his jokes were not funny. They'd slam my looks instead, because as a woman, apparently my looks are supposed to be the most worthwhile thing about me.
/rant