to ask if to ask why men have a better sense of humour than women?

[mdowdall]

Was discussing this with my mate in the pub earlier. Why are women just not as funny (generally speaking) as men? Where are all the great women comedians? I can only think of Victoria Wood and that chubby one with the grey hair. It's just weird.

I think of people I have actually met the women have been funnier. But I agree they (they being the media) seem to find the crappest female comedians to promote. Not sure why.

So women aren't as funny as men because there's more successful male comedians. I suppose that makes women less artistic than men because there's 'no' great artists. And women aren't..as ..successful as..men because.....

But whatever makes you laugh....

Miranda is not bloody fuuny.

She is boring.

IMO

"Women on this site
1. boring types obessing about their kids
2. pc nutcases looking for trouble
3. lesbians
4. old hens
5. okay, there are a few funny women, but not many considering the numbers"

And yet here you are, resiliently putting up with us by continuing to hang around and post.

I don't believe what you say for a minute, mdowdall - you can't fool us. You love us and just can't stay away because we're so freaking funny, and well, always right. S'obvious.

Oh and I can't comment on Coogan because he's shit, but if you love a bit of LD (and who wouldn't?) then maybe try Tina Fey.

Oops, I see she's already been mentioned.

I'd like to see more women doing stand-up material that isn't about 'being a woman' or about her husband or whatever. (And similar for minority groups).

I mean, come on, it's the twenty-first fucking century!

I know several very funny and witty women in RL. They have all got successful careers and have none of them felt the need to try to make a living as a stand-up comedian. Why should they?

Continuing with what BoF has said: in order to be funny in a stand-up kind of way one must act in ways that women are not rewarded for: you must dominate conversations, be crude or embarrassing, and often make a fool of yourself.

Women are socialised to encourage others to talk, to be inclusive, to be ladylike and genteel and polite.

ah yes, there is sometimes the aura of the bully about the comic...

quite often i hear things on the radio that i find funy, but wouldn't have said myself because it would be nasty.

Maybe it's because most men do male observational comedy, and we all know that most of the time their view is clearly fucked up askew, so makes for good comedy, good to laugh AT?

That said, anyone who says that men have a better sense of humour than women clearly never met my morbidly miserable X

Sarah Millican is HILARIOUS, Jenny Eclair, Sue Perkins, Miranda Hart (at times) Female humour is usually clever humour, perhaps this is why men don't always get it?

I'm dead funny me.

Coogan humour is mostly crude innuendo, and on a scale of one to ten, I would give him one

I wonder if the op got up in time for school :)

I like Victoria Wood, Julie Walters and Jo Brand. I think a few posters have hit the nail on the head with how women are 'expected' to behave by men. If they're crude, leary and obnoxious (like some male comics I could mention) just to get laughs, then that shatters the illusion of lady like, and that's not on, is it.

Frankie Boyle - easily the funniest and most original comedian today.
The people slagging Coogan must have missed him in his heyday ie Paul Calf, Alan Partridge etc

i don't find FB funny at all. i often wonder why there are more male comedians and can only come to the conclusion that men seem to want a large audience to show off to.

in real day to day life women are so much more funnier than men. i guess they just don't need to shout about it as much as men do.

I think they come across funnier because its socially acceptable for men to be funny in more vulgar ways, and are generally more extrovert obviously its a huge generalisation.

I go to like intimate comedy gigs and the women just don't have that prescence and seem to fall into labels

steve coogan - cringe comedy. don't like. some of it is just boring.

you probably think Ricky Gervais is a genius o/p but i, for example, think he's an unfunny cock.

Miranda Hart imo is naturally funny, as is Sarah Millican but you probably disagree on principle, as do many other posters.

I think Stewart Lee is a comedy genius, however you only have to look at his own webpage to see that many other people think he's a useless, godless, mumbling tosser.

Ergo funniness is entirely subjective.

Gervais is an idiot! unfunny. distinctly unfunny.

< have been thinking hard and have come to the conclusion I am an Old Hen>

I have seen weeping sores funnier than Frankie Boyle.

tina fey

comedy genius to compare with (and outshine) any male comic