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         A woman walks into a bar

Stand-up is booming. Women are taking centre-stage
①“Men are adorable,” begins Yang Li in a sketch first aired last year. “But mysterious...After all, they can look so average and yet be so full of confidence.” ②It seemed a gentle dig by the newly crowned “punchline queen” of “Rock and Roast”, a television show starring amateur comics. ③But as Ms Yang’s fans spread the gag, male netizens threw a tantrum. ④Last month a group of them reported the 28-year-old to the broadcast regulator for “sexism”. ⑤An academic at Peking University called Ms Yang and her admirers “internet feminists, the most emotional and least tolerable people”.
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①Ms Yang has used the backlash against her gag to create a new one. ②It involves an exchange with a male colleague who approvingly notes her testing of men’s limits. ③Her mock-incredulous riposte: “Do men have limits?”

大意:《脱口秀大会》选手杨笠的调侃段子引起了很多网络上男性的不满，甚至学者也称其和其粉丝“不包容”。而她本人却以段子“男人还有底线呢”回击。“Do men have limits?”

重点词汇
脱口秀：
Stand-up
sketch
stand-up comedy

包袱、笑点、梗：
pack a punchline
punchline
gag

脱口秀演员、喜剧演员：
comic
comedian

吐槽：
a gentle dig
ribbing