Lee Aronsohn, 'Two And A Half Men' co-creator, makes bad women joke

BY MICHAEL HAYNE

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

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Lee Aronsohn, the co-creator of the CBS hit series Two and a Half Men, recently did his best Charlie Sheen from the show impression when he snarkily derided female-centered comedies.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aronsohn took aim at such shows as Whitney and 2 Broke Girls, which also air on Mondays on CBS.

“Enough, ladies. I get it. You have periods,” he said. While Aronsohn gave kudos to show creators such as Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler and Whitney Cummings for addressing previously off-limits subjects on TV, he sniped: “But we’re approaching peak vagina on television, the point of labia saturation.” (Source: Hollywood Reporter)

Perhaps Aronsohn has been slinging the grams and "winning" with his former star Sheen and forgot about that little war on women going on lately, so naturally anything closely resembling sexism will produce a media backlash. As a comedian, this writer firmly believes that nobody should ever have to apologize for a joke, unless it really sucks and the teller in question isn’t actually a comedian (I’m looking at you Rush).

Aronsohn did in fact apologize, but only after the obligatory uproar on Twitter. For example, Martha Plimpton, star of Fox’s Raising Hope, tweeted:

”Um, Lee, women are 51 percent of the population & a coveted demographic for advertisers. What are you thinking?” (Source: Hollywood Reporter)

“Yes, yes – it was a stupid joke. I’m sorry,” he wrote. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)

Now maybe we can all agree that sitcoms are all around terrible, no matter the gender theme. Until then, does anyone know when Labia Saturation will air.

Michael Hayne is a comedian/VO artist/Columnist extraordinaire. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.