And one last one
I think people have finally noticed that "female comedians aren't funny" appears about 3 times on every page and stopped repeating it. So I'm not stating that they're not funny and thinking no-one else has said it yet, just trying to explain why.

Male humour tends to be a status thing. Men genrally want to be funny to gain popularity and stand out. Their humour is funny to people they don't know as they hope to gain popularity, and is loud and confident.

Female humour is more often a bonding excercise among friends. It is subtle and injokey, but absolutely hilarious if you're in on the jokes. A lot of it only makes sense within the group, a lot is non-verbal.

It isn't that women are less funny than men, it's just that the "male humour" is far better suited to a situation involving going on stage alone and making strangers laugh.
(GothicTechie, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 16:09, 5 replies)

Humour
There are more funny women comediennes on telly than there have been for some time but I would still say the funniest comedy is written and performed by men.

Personally I think this comes down to sex. Comedy/humour/performing is largely a method used by men to get attention from the opposite sex. Women just need to wear less clothes to get attention from the opposite sex. Men need to try a bit harder, hence more male comedians. Plus there's the whole male comedy nerd thing memorising entire Montey Python scripts and such like. Do women do this?
(Nitrous Nitrous, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 18:24, closed)

Yes some women do do this
I know several.

HOWEVER, is memorising a Monty Python script evidence of a great sense of humour? Or is it just autism?
( in vino veritas, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 19:21, closed)

"Male" Humour
I recently saw Julian Clary on tour. He was sh*te! Not sure what that says about whom though??????
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Tue 29 Dec 2009, 21:12, closed)

no. women are not as funny as men.

(foxy01, Wed 30 Dec 2009, 13:44, closed)

I think it's being over analysed
I can name several female comedians that I think are hilarious, I can think of more male comedians(that are good) though, but I think that may be because there are simply more in number. So the proportions may be the roughly equal. In general I think that American comedians are shit (there are a few gooduns)both male and female.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 7:24, closed)