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maryjanes
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Location: Cheongju
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| Very simple explanation for why men don't find women funny - we're laughing at you, not with you. |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Mae West!! cutting edge as it gets! Tracey Ullman! Whoopi Goldberg, when she was doing her one woman show off broadway. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Tina Fey. Pretty and hilarious.
I kind of agree, though. More men tend to be funnier. But perhaps this gender disparity is less pronounced than the OP makes it out to be. |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| I do enjoy the stand-ups of Wanda Sykes and Kathy Griffin. Not really crazy about Magaret Cho though. |
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:33 am Post subject: |
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It's no big secret that men don't find women as funny as women find men. In the same way that women don't find men as sexy as men find women. Or that men don't find women as rich as women find men. Or that women don't find men as chaste as men find women. We're all lying to each other anyway, so who cares? Get over it. How do you spell "evolution"?
Gold star to the first idiot that points out that I spelled it correctly. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| The tendency for men to be funnier than women can be attributed to the different ways in which men and women use speech. Men use speech to convey abstract and theoretical concepts, discuss matters of high complexity and make observations about the external world. Women use speech chiefly to express their feelings and emotions and to discuss other fairly trivial, personal topics. |
Verbal and cognitive differences play their role, but since the comedic effect of a joke relies so much on non-verbal delivery, and since women find the cognitive content of most men's jokes funny in any case, they can't explain the whole difference. In other words, if cognitive differences were the cause, then women would not only not make the jokes, they wouldn't get them either.
Another reason that men are funnier than women is that men in general are markedly less affected in every way - that is, more natural, more themselves, more individuated. When it comes down to it, stand-up comedians are clowns, and stand-up comedy automatically creates, indeed relies upon, the performer's public loss of 'face'.
Caring less about preserving their perceived social respectability means that men are able effortlessly to throw it away for laughs, and in the very ease with which they do it, make it acceptable to the audience. Men are paradoxically able to transmute this loss of face into gain. Women, more self-conscious about the automatic loss of face involved in stand-up, inevitably seem forced, which communicates itself to the audience, which therefore can't shed a nagging feeling of embarrassment.
These are generalizations. |
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johnnyenglishteacher2
Joined: 03 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Linda Smith (RIP), Miranda Hart, Caroline Aherne are all good, Connie Booth co-wrote Fawlty Towers.
Sarah Silverman is shocking...... ly bad. |
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Robbo
Joined: 05 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Wanda Sykes is a riot! Tina Fey is the whole package! Hot, super smart, and funny. I'm really showing my age here but I have to say, Carol Burnett was pretty damn funny too back in the day. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I dunno about "hot" and she's not a stand-up comic, but Tina Fey is probably the funniest woman alive. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| Elaine May in "Small Time Crooks". It's not stand up, but she had me in stiches. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Tina Fey is funny. Sarah Silverman is very funny. That other girl on 30 rock is pretty funny too. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I really find Jen Kober and Margaret Cho to be funny. Silverman is pretty good~ but waaaay out there!! |
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goniff
Joined: 31 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 2:00 am Post subject: |
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for me ALL women are "funny"
but not in the conventional "humorous" sense |
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kiknkorea
Joined: 16 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:32 am Post subject: |
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I don't find very many of today's women comedians funny (in all fairness I feel the same way about the men.)
So I'll have to go back a ways to LaWanda Page, better known as Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son.
She was pretty raunchy, but really funny. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| kiknkorea wrote: |
So I'll have to go back a ways to LaWanda Page, better known as Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son.
She was pretty raunchy, but really funny. |
Yeah, Sanford(Foxx) and her played off each other pretty well.
I remember one bit where she said,"I was blessed by Mother Nature", and Sanford replied, "But you were cursed by Father Time". |
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