Last One to Laugh - did the female contestants need to do sexualised performances for laughs?

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I really enjoyed Last One to Laugh but was a bit perplexed by the female contestants doing strip teases and erotic dancing,

I don’t watch stand up any more but can’t imagine French and Saunders or Jo Brand twerking at a dog for laughs. Or Bridget Christie.

And the male contestants didn’t do sexualised performances.

So, YABU: it is ok that the women did sexualised performances, and the men, not
YANBU: there is more to women’s comedy than strip teases and twerking

I didn’t think there was much sexualised comedy. Harriet was the only one I didn’t know and I didn’t find her act particularly funny but I imagine it would have been different if I were faced with it. I think Lou’s tactic was a lot more about what would make people uncomfortable and therefore laugh rather than just using humour, and it clearly worked as she got a few people out.

It was great. Watching people who love to laugh try not to was so funny. Daisy’s facial expressions were amazing, as were everyone walking off when they couldn’t handle it.

Stop saying "skit"!

All right, Margot Ledbetter...

Er yes

What would you prefer, a ‘turn’?

No

This set me off at the start as well. Most of the funniest parts for me where the more random ones, rather than the contrived ‘acts’ and I found it funnier watching people trying to keep serious faces on whilst someone was in front of them performing a crazy skit. They were just sat there looking at it like they were contemplating a series piece of art in a gallery and it cracked me up

Me too @@WhereIsMyJumper. I enjoyed the nervousness at the beginning that even the mundane would make them laugh. Also the subtle dressing up that some of them did, a genius approach really as (for example) Richard couldn’t see the ridiculousness of the yellow cap balanced on his Afro, but the others could.

Friends of mine watched it and joined in with the trying not to laugh, they didn’t last long 😂