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Women with Balls A Comedy Showcase for Women You know how girls talk when guys aren't around? You should hear how they sing when they don't have to scream to be heard. Imagine hearing jokes that don't use you as the bitch, bimbo or buffoon. Women with Balls was a place where you could revel in the song of the funniest furies. Male philosophers have long busied themselves with answering the obscure question of whether a tree falling in the forest makes a sound if noone hears it. Women comics have posed a similar query: If a woman stands on stage and tells jokes, does anybody hear her? These folks did! This show was where Mimi became the thankless title of Producer when she started "Women with Balls" in San Francisco in 1994. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1996, she continued the concept of an all-female comedy line-up. The Los Angeles show consistently packed the space at Little Frida's Coffee House. Since beginning the show, over 250 women comedians (and she's got the phone list to prove it!) ranging from first-timers to Tonight Show veterans graced the stage. These rooms were started out of the need for women comics to have a place to grow. All too often, the female performers have fought to get on stage at an open-mic at one of the mainstream clubs only to hear the standard dismissal, "Women just aren't funny." Furthermore, it's almost impossible for young, new comediennes to try their wings. While these rooms were started to provide a hospitable environment for new female performers, they always maintained the position of not excluding the minority — in this case, male performers. So there were occasionally a couple of men who appeared as either "token males" or "sperm donors."