It’s a great day for women in television. And a great day for Valerie Cherish! Lisa Kudrow was nominated this morning for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy in her HBO series The Comeback—her second nomination for playing Valerie nearly 10 years after the first season debuted. So what has changed? Perhaps some of Hollywood’s age bias. In the first season of The Comeback in 2005, much was made of Valerie’s age and how no one wanted to see a woman in her 30’s unless she was covered up in a horrid track suit and surrounded by sexy 20-somethings. Today, however, Kudrow was nominated alongside Edie Falco, Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, Amy Poehler, Lily Tomlin and Julia Louis-Dreyfus–all women over 30 and Kudrow tells E! News that she is thrilled at the great strides TV has made when it comes to age and gender bias, versus the world of film.
