Scarlett O'Hara

This is not meaning to be sexist, but over my years I've found that men always seem to find other men funny, specially when doing talks/speeches. Women don't often seem to get the same natural response.

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VEGANGELICA

Hell yes, of course women can be funny...and what kind of sexist question is that?!?



This is actually a very interesting question to me, Vanilla, because I just read an article that said essentially that "men tend to be the ones who make jokes and women tend to be the ones who laugh at them," possibly because funny men compete for a woman's attention during mate selection. Here is a preview of the article in Scientific American: The Humor Gap: Men and Women See Laughter Differently in Romance: Scientific American

Yes, I read Scientific American in my spare time. As if anyone had to wonder about that.

I tend to view such sociobiological claims with skepticism, but at least the researchers did provide some data based on studying women and men's responses to humor and gender.

The article went on to say that men supposedly don't feel a funny woman (a comedian, for example) is more desirable because of her sense of humor, but women tend to really like funny men. I know finding someone who "made me laugh" was really important in a mate, so maybe there is some truth to that. When all else fails, at least if he makes me laugh something is working! Maybe men don't look for humor in women as a top priority? Maybe they look a little lower?

However (says the article), once *in* a relationship, men really value a woman who uses humor to help relieve tension. This ability, by the way, is my one biological asset, and is probably the main reason I was able to remain humorous throughout the rising tension of numerous failing relationships.

I find women and men to be equally funny! So I voted yes.

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TheCunningStunt

I went for the sexist no option.

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Guybrush

I went for sometimes Some girls use a lot of humor and are hilarious. I know a few .. I know many more guys who fit that description though! Not just because I have more guy friends, but that's a general impression I have.

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men and women just laugh at different things. my wife simply doesn't appreciate 'male' humor - Big Lebowski for example. she can go though the whole film without so much as a chuckle or guffaw. same with Monty Python.

on a similar note, i can suffer through an episode of Sex and the City or Friends and fail to see what makes it even remotely comedic.

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TheCunningStunt

Big Lebowski is hilarious, as is Friends. I never knew Friends got so much stick from males until I joined this forum. I thought everyone loved friends.

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Scarlett O'Hara

Thank you! What a great example of people being funny. Rachel and Monica were definitely funny. Pheobe was just stupid.

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TheCunningStunt

The people who wrote their lines were probably men.

And I agree! Pheobe was the worst Friend.

Chandler FTW

Y"ou think I'm funny don't you? What do you know? You're a door. You only like knock knock jokes."

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Mojo

Yeah we don't really get SNL here. I think there are still a couple of satellite channels that show it but its not exactly regular programming here. I'm sure there are a lot of funny women write for SNL. After all both Tina Fey and Julia Louis Dreyfus, whom i mentioned in my post, have SNL backgrounds.

I'm not an Ellen Degeneres fan though, i have to admit.

Actually, i think that the majority of writers on Friends over the years were women. I could probably pull a statistic from somewhere on the net to back that up if i could be arsed but I am reasonably sure that it's true.

And Lisa Kudrow was the worst Friend? No way. Courtney Cox was rarely all that humorous but Jennifer Aniston really matured on that show I feel. Especially in later seasons, she really did become a much better comic actress.

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Scarlett O'Hara

Even if it was written by men, the fact that the women pulled it off shows that they come across funny. Courtney Cox is pretty funny in general, Cougar Town for instance.

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