funny women

[niekhilet]

Thalia says

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[midnightglobe]

my theory on why there are no funny women is that they have more language centers in their brains-- take any great comedian, from the late george carlin to richard pryor to mitch hedberg: the content of their humor is invariably painful, it touches on deep hypocricies, pains, injustices. they poke those pain centers just enough to make an audience uncomfortable, to provoke a response. and because the audience is at a comedy show, the response is usually laughter

[niekhilet]

Interesting. I always had the impression that women can't be funny rattling around in my head for a while, but this article kind of cemented it for me:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701

[midnightglobe]

thats a great article!

[raiyne]

But you chuckled at my Santa joke on the subway... Oh, you were just trying to be nice, weren't you!!