Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

It's just something I've got from interacting with British people I've known on-line as a common criticism of American sitcoms.

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Sansa Stark

umm...okay.

Neapolitan

I never met a women named Conan, but I've met plenty named Pat, and they were hilarious.

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CanwllCorfe

I thought this might be relevant:

It's fascinating. I never really thought of it this way before.

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Dirty

That's definitely true... When I say I want a girl "with a good sense of humor," I am really saying I want a girl who thinks my style of humor is funny and occasionally says funny things. But more than anything just likes my style of humor.

MoonlitSunshine

British Sit-coms are funnier, so when they use laugh-tracks, it's at actually funny points. American ones use them the same amount if not more, and they're less funny, so you get moments of "...there was a laugh track, but that wasn't funny" every now and then. At least, that's my experience.

On-topic: I'm definitely the Joke-cracker in my relationship, but that said I'm generally referred to as a terrible pun-machine, so that's not very surprising really. That, and comedy is one of Ireland's biggest exports, so I think it's in the genes...

I had a thought about female comedians just recently. I think is possible that Men are better Storytellers. Maybe it's something in the voice, or the cadence, but even on a non-comedic level: Richard Burton, Morgan Freeman, I don't think there is a woman in the world who could parallel the most awesome storytelling voices of the male persuasion. This relates to how I said (and probably others as well) about how men are better at standup. Standup comedy is pretty much all about how you tell the joke, drawing it out long enough to build up the suspense, and delivering the punch line in the most effective manner. There's something about how the good male comedians deliver their jokes that is very, very rare among women. Take Jo Brown for example. Pretty famous female comedian in the UK at least. Completely deadpan delivery, brilliant sense of humour. If you put her in a conversational situation, like on QI, she's fantastic. She's good with one-liners, interjections, short burts of gold, basically. But if you put her on a stage... she has nothing to play off, and suddenly she's not all that funny. Why? I believe because she lacks that storytelling talent which makes a good standup comedian.

Thoughts?

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someonecompletelyrandom

I don't understand the constant bashing of American humor. 'cross the
Pond of course it will be less funny because of the difference in culture. And the Americans who constantly suck up to British people by bashing American humor are the worst. Over here, there's a great number of people who think rejecting the humor they were raised on and forcing themselves to love another is "hip".

I personally enjoy many types of humor, including British, and will genuinely laugh whether I "get" some of it of not. Side bar: I actually think humor is I don't "get" is funniest. But it just pains me to see people so quick to abandon their heritage for a few measly cool points with some British guy who probably doesn't give a shart.

Ps this isn't directed at anybody, the British/American thing just reminded me of it.

someonecompletelyrandom

That makes sense to me. Men seem, traditionally at least, to be the storytellers. I can actually think of a female comedienne, who I dont find funny at all, whose style is storytelling. While I think it'd help if she just generally had funnier material, this may be a factor.

djchameleon

At first I completely agreed with everything you said then I started to think about which female stand up comedians are great at story telling. A few that popped to my mind instantly were Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg and Wanda Sykes. So I decided to do a little research and when these others were mentioned I agreed with the sentiment that they were really good stand up comediennes.

Rosanne Barr, Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin, Minnie Pearl, Margaret Cho, Whitney Cummings and Lisa Lampanelli

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Astronomer

I know plenty of women who are hilarious so I voted 'yes.'

It's like this - when, for example, we had a male prime minister in Australia, most of the time what people focused on was what was coming out of his mouth. Now that we have a female prime minister, a lot of what is focused on is what colour her hair is, what haircut she got, what design of clothes she is wearing, or why that skirt looks terrible on her. I think you can sometimes say the same for comedy, which prevents women from showing their sense of humour as their main aspect of appeal, rather than their other features.

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