Are women funny?

[Rui]

I still disagree that some things are flat out funny ;p and there are dozens of female comedy writers for shows; you probably just watch more male-orientated things. Whether they're any good compared to the males would require me to watch far more episodic comedy to form a balanced evaluation than I'd care to do at the moment I'm afraid!

I don't really get the stand up artists who have been mentioned so far as good examples of talent. I'm sure they are very good to a comedy fan but it doesn't click with me. My partner's a huge Connolly fan so I get exposed to his stuff fairly regularly but it doesn't really do any more for me than watching the weather forecast (sorry).

I do like Monty Python though. Possibly the fault of childhood brainwashing. On the other hand the manga High School Girls cracks me up and that's extremely feminine in tone.

It's likely that some things are funnier to guys and some to girls as someone said earlier and the different styles attract different followings. I'm pretty butch so not particularly liking any famous female comedy stars doesn't break any of my personal trends.

Female stars do seem rarer but possibly it's because females are just poorly represented in that kind of role in most fields (aside from dancer/actress/singer, but most of those are playing a part rather than baring your sense of humour). It takes a lot of traditionally masculine qualities that are only now barely being shared out more evenly in stereotypes - I can think of female comics but very few traditionally feminine comics. Maybe audiences feel less at ease subconsciously about women in that role too so they have a harder time getting famous.

R

 

[Lupus]

Is X female funny? No.

Reason: Because she's a woman.

But in all honestly, there's some girls who have made me laugh, but only because some of the things they say are complete and utter ********.

 

[chaos]

I have so much fun with Clamp, not that they really wrote any comedy series....
Some of the most funny persons I know in RL are female, so I disagree.

BTW - you wouldn't know, but back home many of the comedy plays on theaters are written and performed by women.

 

[Liquid Skin]

Come to think of it, The Adrian Mole diaries were written by a woman, Sue Townsend.

Then again they really are more cringe funny than funny funny

 

[kupocake]

You seem to have the sense of humour akin to most house ferns, so, next.

Congratulations on your appointment to the ministry of humour, but I fear your commitments to the house of 'SHUT UP!!! I'M ALWAYS RIGHT!!!' and the department of arrogance will ultimately get in the way of your fine work.

 

[Kurogane]

You seem to have the sense of humour akin to most house ferns, so, next.

Congratulations on your appointment to the ministry of humour, but I fear your commitments to the house of 'SHUT UP!!! I'M ALWAYS RIGHT!!!' and the department of arrogance will ultimately get in the way of your fine work.

Smooth runnings so far, so go nextdoor to the unnecessary opinion utopia.

 

[kupocake]

Smooth runnings so far, so go nextdoor to the unnecessary opinion utopia.

And perhaps I'll drop off the bundle of complaints against your self-importance while I'm there? Nothing more unnecessary than a statement of the obvious.

 

[Kurogane]

Smooth runnings so far, so go nextdoor to the unnecessary opinion utopia.

And perhaps I'll drop off the bundle of complaints against your self-importance while I'm there? Nothing more unnecessary than a statement of the obvious.

Kay pal.

 

[Liquid Skin]

Girls please! Theres no need to fight, theres more than enough of me to go around.

 

[kupocake]

Girls please! Theres no need to fight, theres more than enough of me to go around.

Pff... so like the British public to turn their heads at the sight of domestic violence. To you it's just a little squabble, but to one of us it's straight to the moon for speaking when not spoken too. What a world!

 

[CitizenGeek]

Women are most certainly funny. If you want to only take one industry like stand up comedy - one that is overwhelmingly dominated by men - and base your opinion on an entire gender's funny bone on that, then you're fairly silly. It's like saying that men are terrible at caring for the sick simply because most nurses are women.

In my own personal experience, it's the girls among my friends (and, admittedly, the vast majority of my friends are girls ) that make me laugh. Generally, I find I can have more fun with joking around girls.

So, I completely disagree with the original poster!

 

[rick]

I'm fine with women in comedy roles on TV or whatever, but in the real world they're a complete joke (no pun intended).

I'm completely bias though because of my own experiences, but like I said before: they think what they've said is funny and like mid-sentence (during a normal conversation) they just suddenly start laughing or laugh while talking, for no reason whatsoever. It's the most bewildering thing I've ever endured.

 

[Rui]

The collective feminine consciousness apologises to ryuzaki for the *laughter* bizarre way our hive mind works. It's not intentional *giggle* it just sort of *teehee* happens because we have breasts.

If it's always in conversations you have, maybe they're just laughing at you?

Sorry but there's only so many ways to read "'I'm fine with women in comedy roles on TV or whatever, but in the real world they're a complete joke" and most of them don't sit well with a live specimen.

R

 

[Kurogane]

Women are most certainly funny. If you want to only take one industry like stand up comedy - one that is overwhelmingly dominated by men - and base your opinion on an entire gender's funny bone on that, then you're fairly silly. It's like saying that men are terrible at caring for the sick simply because most nurses are women.

In my own personal experience, it's the girls among my friends (and, admittedly, the vast majority of my friends are girls ) that make me laugh. Generally, I find I can have more fun with joking around girls.

So, I completely disagree with the original poster!

Since you play into the stereotype that 'gay people have little to no male friends', your opinion is coming more from the away team. If you associated with woman more than the average heterosexual male would, you'd eventually start laughing at the inane **** that inevitably comes.

CG, before you start waving your gay pride flag, note:

I don't care.

 

[Arbalest]

Indeed i do think women can be funny, a fair few of the women i know can tell a good joke which most people will laugh to. I really don't see much of a difference between male and female comedians, yes you could say the men are better, but then again, if you think about it, there is more men who've taken up being a comedian than women(i think) so its, to me, not so fair to choose either way. In any case, its down to the person again isn't it? There is men who can tell jokes better than women, and in turn, there is women that can tell better jokes than men, simple as that.

 

[Liquid Skin]

and like mid-sentence (during a normal conversation) they just suddenly start laughing or laugh while talking, for no reason whatsoever. It's the most bewildering thing I've ever endured.

So what? I laugh mid-sentence all of the time, nothing strange about that. Well....it is but people generally climatise to it and we all get along swimmingly

Kurogane - you're angry.

 

[Gacha]

Some women can be funny but i find when it comes to comedy you have to have a certian presence as being someone who would stand out from the crowd espiacally in stand up, Which a lot of women seem to lack.
But I find with female comedians is they either try to impersinate their male counter parts(loud,agressive etc) or they are to quick to jump in on the "my husband is **** at sex".

 

[kupocake]

So, I completely disagree with the original poster!

Oh Shi---!

CG, before you start waving your gay pride flag, note:

I don't care.

I'll give you one thing kurogane. You've given the best laugh per word ratio in this thread, even if it's showed us all why phpBB really needs a report-post function.

 

[Kurogane]

So, I completely disagree with the original poster!

Oh Shi---!

CG, before you start waving your gay pride flag, note:

I don't care.

I'll give you one thing kurogane. You've given the best laugh per word ratio in this thread, even if it's showed us all why phpBB really needs a report-post function.

The funniest thing is how you all react to it.

You think this is real?

 

[Rui]

You think this is real?

I'm mostly worried by the people who appear to seriously agree with it

R