She did do acting before she did comedy, probably nothing anyone's ever seen.

It looks like I'm not alone in having the impression that the most recent seasons were badly received: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/ratings/

I don't think it was that gender "was an issue" or anything. Like I say I thought it was just kind of generally understood that the recent seasons just weren't very good, but it looks from the comments like that's not the Lemmy consensus, so be it.