The ‘70s didn’t just give us disco, bell-bottoms, and platform shoes. It gave us legendary women on television. These were the trailblazers, the comedy queens, the superheroes and the moms-next-door ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...