Well, it’s official: the received wisdom that comedies for women don’t make money is complete and utter crap. The glowingly reviewed, Kristen Wiig-penned and -starring Bridesmaids exceeded the studio’s wildest projections, earning $24.6 million (nearly $10 million more than anticipated) and debuting at #2. To celebrate the film — and further disprove the notion that ladies can’t do slapstick, gross-out comedy — we’ve compiled our favorite raunchy women-in-comedy moments. From sexual come-ons to birth to bodily fluids, the top ten are after the jump. Let us know what you’d add in the comments.

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1. Watch the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s documentary film about Spalding Gray, And Everything is Going Fine, which his widow asked the director to make after his tragic death. [via Slashfilm]

2. More Steve Carell news: He and David Steinberg are making a documentary that will chronicle the evolution of comedy over the past sixty years through interviews with everyone form Don Rickles to Jane Lynch. [via Deadline]

3. Lea Michele says that if she gets kicked off of Glee as a student, then she’ll return as a teacher. Which is totally something Rachel Berry would say. [via Hollywood Life]

4. Dexter has been renewed for a sixth season — which isn’t surprising as last Sunday’s episode was the second most watched in series history. [via Variety]

5. My Girl star Anna Chlumsky is set to co-star opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO’s comedy pilot Veep, a new show that centers on a former senator who becomes Vice President. [via Deadline]

Bonus link: See Conan Tell Jokes in a Pair of Man-Jeggings

1. Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal, known for her roles in Hud, The Fountainhead, and The Day the Earth Stood Still, has died at 84. [via USA Today]
2. Literary recluse Don DeLillo has given a rare interview to help promote Point Omega. [via Guardian]
3. Saturday Night Live has asked Glee‘s Jane Lynch to host one of the first shows of its upcoming season. [via Movieline]
4. James Cameron claims that even though the government asked for his advice, they failed to take his plan for fixing the BP oil spill seriously. [via MTV]
5. This is kind of cool: A reunion of models who sat for Norman Rockwell when they were kids. [via NYT]

Bonus link: Wikipedia’s lamest edit wars

1. What Steve Jobs had to say at yesterday’s D8 conference, including an update on Apple’s ongoing legal feud with Gizmodo over that “stolen” iPhone. [via Fast Company]
2. Lily Allen is rumored to be writing songs for a forthcoming stage adaptation of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, which will open in London’s West End next year. [via The Guardian]
3. Peaches Geldof is working on a children’s book that’s inspired by the work of Bret Easton Ellis. [via Telegraph]
4. Glee‘s Jane Lynch married girlfriend Lara Embry at a small ceremony in Massachusetts over the holiday weekend; no other celebrities were present. [via People]
5. Federal officials met with James Cameron yesterday, hoping that his expertise with underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies could help with ideas on how to stop the BP oil spill. [via AP]

Quote of the day: “I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird for someone who makes pop music. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, ‘You’re a sellout!’ But that’s not what it is… A lot of pop songs are super shallow, but this music isn’t.” – Miley Cyrus

There are a million random reading lists out there, but few that are grouped together based on the type of person doling out the recommendations (ergo our lit-hipster reading list from last month). For this new installment we’ve decided to go in a different direction, and collected the suggested reading of a few of our favorite comedians. (The result is a lot less funny than you might think.) Most of the books here aren’t new, but they are completely awesome. Leave a comment if you were as shocked by what’s on Tina Fey’s bedside table as we were.

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Today at Flavorpill, we laughed at this New York Times piece on the etiquette of texting at the dinner table. Especially the dad who didn’t want to give up his iPhone. Remember when it used to be scandalous when families would eat in front of the TV? We geeked out over this NSFW Lonely Island/Heroes mashup — especially the Sylar parts. We couldn’t believe that Chris Brown would break his silence with such horrid grammar. We cheered for Tom McGeveran, the new editor of the New York Observer. Thanks for helping us still believe. We loved these ladies for reminding us of that scene in Big, and we puked over these giant earthworms, which reminded us of that childhood song about eating worms. We made plans to hit up some NYC food festivals and we loved this pretty transparent NYC map. And finally, we flipped out over this upcoming Simon Pegg movie, which will star Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Jane Lynch, and Jason Bateman. Holy comedians, batman.

I don’t what it is about her. Jane Lynch is an uncanny, unrelenting character. I wish she were my aunt. I can easily envision her at annual family dinners making every single relation feel incredibly awkward by her seemingly passive and deliberate assertions. Grandma complains of the difficulty of getting from one place to another because of her aching, aging body. Aunt Jane shoots, “You think [that’s] hard? Try living with hepatitis. That’s hard.” Read More »