The Marvellous Missus Mazel, by Anneliza Barbiri

In the amazon show, set fifties and sixties new york, midge mazel discovers her talent as a stand up. Lenon and masel have been likened to real life comics, phyllis diller and joan rivers. In reality, it would be some years after mazel's debut that more subversive, intellectual comics such as lily tomlin would take off. Back on teve treet and mina sana finds out what life was really like for women who dared to be funny in the post war lies.