"I'm gonna do the splits on your pillow!"

az2wp0sye65487

Men are funnier than Women - They have a much broader and more diverse sense of humour. FACT! (not really a fact, actually just my opinion).

Anyway, I've always thought that I was the funny one in the relationship. I have also been known to have a slightly sick sense of humour at times. But the other half comes out with some great one-liners every now and then.

Last night, I had just finished changing the sheets etc. on the bed; and a while later we decided it was time to hit the hay. I said something along the lines of "I'll be up in a minute, don't go hoggin my side and wreckin that new bed like ya always do"... when she says straight back "I'm gonna do the splits on your pillow!"

I was falling around laughing for a few minutes, maybe you'd have had to be there to see the funny side....

I was wondering what people think about 'being funny' - is it a right reserved for us men or can women join in too sometimes?

Look at comedians & comediennes - There are far more funny men out there than women. 2 that just popped into my head as I'm typing are Jo Brand & Sarah Silverman.

Jo Brand - A.K.A. 'I'm fat - everyone laugh'
Sarah Silverman - 'I'll act as much like a man as possible to seem funny'

Opinions Please!!

bluto63

Joe Brand and Sarah Silverman aren't funny.

Women aren't funny

Professey Chin

Christ dont bring this up in the Stand Up forum. Some ones been on a wobbler about it recently

blaze1

dont think women are funny in general but my mrs has come out with some crackers over the years...

Jo brand should be shot..... btw is russel brand her love child??????

Gone Drinking

bluto63 wrote: »

Women aren't funny

Their opinion usually is

alexandros

An AH gender war thread based on humor.
Did you think this one through?

Where did I put my ten foot pole?

minxie

Aitana Strong Robber wrote: »

Men are funnier than Women - They have a
Last night, I had just finished changing the sheets etc. on the bed; and a while later we decided it was time to hit the hay. I said something along the lines of "I'll be up in a minute, don't go hoggin my side and wreckin that new bed like ya always do"... when she says straight back "I'm gonna do the splits on your pillow!"

I was falling around laughing for a few minutes, maybe you'd have had to be there to see the funny side....

I was wondering what people think about 'being funny' - is it a right reserved for us men or can women join in too sometimes?

brilliant

bluto63 wrote: »

Joe Brand and Sarah Silverman aren't funny.

Women aren't funny

:eek:

Black Swan

Aitana Strong Robber wrote: »

Men are funnier than Women -
I said something along the lines of "I'll be up in a minute, don't go hoggin my side and wreckin that new bed like ya always do"... when she says straight back "I'm gonna do the splits on your pillow!"

I was falling around laughing for a few minutes, maybe you'd have had to be there to see the funny side....

(s)he made a joke and you laughed?

Hagar

Aitana Strong Robber wrote: »

"I'm gonna do the splits on your pillow!

Funny, no, strangely erotic, yes.
Pics or GTFO.

hotshots85

Giggity

phasers

Women aren't funny, and as a woman it saddens me when I make a joke and I get so many pity laughs.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7izJggqCoA

wan the Hitch.

lads are better craic for pints, sums it up really..

Gone Drinking

Deleted User wrote: »

lads are better craic for pints, sums it up really..

Yea but women are better crack

Insect Overlord

Gone Drinking wrote: »

Yea but women are better crack

I think it's safe to say that this pun shows that not all us men-folk are as hilarious as we'd like to believe...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

It's not that women aren't funny, it's that women rarely make the effort. It's like chatting up a man: they can do it, but they choose not to.

abouttobebanned

Kristen Wiig is funny.

Katherine Tate is also funny.

That is all.

Noopti

I find that most women comedians aren't very funny. They tend to all make jokes of the same thing:

1. Periods
2. Sagging breasts
3. Pregnancy
4. PMS

etc etc

I have rarely seen a woman comedian actually use current affairs/politics or anything original in their material. Not saying they aren't out there....but I've never seen them!

Insect Overlord

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Katherine Tate is also funny.

Liars make the baby Jesus cry.

Abi

Deleted User wrote: »

lads are better craic for pints, sums it up really..

QFT.

I much prefer going out with the lads. Wimmins (most & imo) are incapable of leaving their serious side at home. For this reason, I have penis envy. Its the saddest, cringiest sight- when you walk in on a pïssed therapy session when you need to go to the toilet.

OP, I think that was a <between couples> kind of humour

My name is URL

I think Jo Brand is definitely funny. I enjoy her when she appears on QI

Also Kathy Burke tickles my funnyboner

Noopti

Upward Spiral wrote: »

Also Kathy Burke tickles my funnyboner

Kathy Burke is a woman?

I always thought his parents had a sense of humour(Probably the dad) regarding the name.

az2wp0sye65487

Abigayle wrote: »

OP, I think that was a <between couples> kind of humour

N'ah, fcuk that! - Anything you say CAN and WILL be used against you to embarress and make fun of you!!!





<sends her a link to this thread>

Professey Chin

Nina Conti is a good comedian but she has Munk to help
Id post a link but I dont have the youtube in work

elekid

Noopti wrote: »

I have rarely seen a woman comedian actually use current affairs/politics or anything original in their material. Not saying they aren't out there....but I've never seen them!

Tina Fey is funny and she did the whole Sarah Palin thing!

RandolphEsq

Vicar of Dibley marathon on Dave coming up in the next few days!!!!!!




I think I will plug out the tv and hide until it's safe to come back out

Clare Bear

I hate when this topic comes up. Some of the funniest people I know are women and some of the biggest dry shites I've met are men. It's not all black and white.

Professey Chin

Clare Bear wrote: »

It's not all black and white.

Whoa whoa whoa. No-ones talkin about racism here

petes

OP you should have just told her that you were going to jizz on her face while she slept!

WindSock

If women arent funny, why are they always laughing in each others company?

Professey Chin

Insurgent wrote: »

OP you should have just told her that you were going to jizz on her face while she slept!

Youre supposed to do that anyway

masonman

WindSock wrote: »

If women arent funny, why are they always laughing in each others company?

Probably the same reason why you never see men in the same company or men in the same company laughing and meaning it.

Have met some genuinely funny girls, but very few.

WindSock

masonman wrote: »

Probably the same reason why you never see men in the same company or men in the same company laughing and meaning it.

Have met some genuinely funny girls, but very few.

Maybe becasue women have a different sense of humour that doesn't appeal to men?

994

Noopti wrote: »

I find that most women comedians aren't very funny. They tend to all make jokes of the same thing:

1. Periods
2. Sagging breasts
3. Pregnancy
4. PMS

etc etc

I have rarely seen a woman comedian actually use current affairs/politics or anything original in their material. Not saying they aren't out there....but I've never seen them!

You forgot babies, children and husbands. It's like they're in some sort of timewarp where all beyond themselves and their home is scary and mysterious.

masonman

WindSock wrote: »

Maybe becasue women have a different sense of humour that doesn't appeal to men?

I am not disputing that at all....

Lobelia Overhill

Kathy Griffin is kinda funny ...

Professey Chin

Lobelia Overhil wrote: »

Kathy Griffin is kinda funny ...

so is aids

Wibbs

There are theories that being funny is a male display of intelligence and social and possibly physical fitness(though the latter in a particular way) towards women and other competing men.

Read a study(can't find that particular one online, but this is another study with a similar slant http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7153584.stm) which looked at a cross section of men in the general population of different ages and how they were perceived as funny or not. Younger males generally were funnier. Older males much less so in general and found similar things funny as women.

Funnier males were also socially more adept, had more friends and more sexual partners, than males not considered funny. Their free testosterone levels were higher and they were more socially competitive. Younger males in the company of women would "compete" with each other with humour.

So from that they concluded that obvious social humour in men was possibly an evolutionary thing selected by women that gave external indications of their reproductive fitness. Funnily of the professional stand ups they looked at the results were skewed. They tended to be less socially adept. Which was interesting. Tears of a clown etc.

So it looks like a balance. A bit funny and generally humourous was good, but too much or too consistently(professional funny men), while good for the group, was not so good for the individual.

I remember reading another article which suggested that the general subtle brain differences between the genders may be a reason too. Men tend to have more isolated brain hemispheres, so abstract humour tended to be more appealing to them than to women. Women tended to prefer social humour based in reality.

All that said I do know some very funny women and some seriously unfunny men. I would say that of the generally humorous types, the balance was more on the male side though.

Mr Benevolent

Woman use humour in a more subtle way. Men tell jokes, stories and fart a lot. Some of that's not funny. It's frankly stupid to say that 'women don't have a sense of humour', because it's not true. How can an entire half of the population have no sense of humour? And to all the guys who claim that women aren't funny, would you go out with a humourless woman?

Creamy Goodness

queefs seems to be about as funny as a girl can get.

but queefs aren't funny.

az2wp0sye65487

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

queefs seems to be about as funny as a girl can get.

but queefs aren't funny.

They aren't funny - they're fcuking hilarious!

Gummy Panda

Fanny batter on the pillow?

Professey Chin

Confab wrote: »

Woman use humour in a more subtle way. Men tell jokes, stories and fart a lot.

And what are these subtleties?

Nodin

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Fanny batter on the pillow?

More like this got pissed, ate a half melted cadburys and tried to mate with said pillow.....

thelordofcheese

Confab wrote: »

Woman use humour in a more subtle way. Men tell jokes, stories and fart a lot. Some of that's not funny. It's frankly stupid to say that 'women don't have a sense of humour', because it's not true. How can an entire half of the population have no sense of humour? And to all the guys who claim that women aren't funny, would you go out with a humourless woman?

Unfortunately for you, women not being funny and women not actually having a sense of humour are two very different things.

S.I.R

Aitana Strong Robber wrote: »

Men are funnier than Women - They have a much broader and more diverse sense of humour. FACT! (not really a fact, actually just my opinion).

Anyway, I've always thought that I was the funny one in the relationship. I have also been known to have a slightly sick sense of humour at times. But the other half comes out with some great one-liners every now and then.

Last night, I had just finished changing the sheets etc. on the bed; and a while later we decided it was time to hit the hay. I said something along the lines of "I'll be up in a minute, don't go hoggin my side and wreckin that new bed like ya always do"... when she says straight back "I'm gonna do the splits on your pillow!"

I was falling around laughing for a few minutes, maybe you'd have had to be there to see the funny side....

I was wondering what people think about 'being funny' - is it a right reserved for us men or can women join in too sometimes?

Look at comedians & comediennes - There are far more funny men out there than women. 2 that just popped into my head as I'm typing are Jo Brand & Sarah Silverman.

Jo Brand - A.K.A. 'I'm fat - everyone laugh'
Sarah Silverman - 'I'll act as much like a man as possible to seem funny'

Opinions Please!!

i agree 110% im always the funnier, sick half...


she is the politely laughing till i run out of material ( 10 or so lines... )

i think very few if any women are funny... i think they Can work well as a part of something ( teaming up, i set her up and she finishes it off kinda thing )

other then that... nah... dismall performances from 99.99% of women

m@cc@

Sometimes men can be un-intentionally funny. For instance, my (female) boss came in dressed in what can be described as summer attire. To which I respond 'it makes me feel warm, looking at you'.

FlutterinBantam

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Fanny batter on the pillow?

Good for clearing out the sinuses .

Trick is to put a piece of kitchen paper on the "trail" so your ear is not damp next morning.
Very invigorating scent and slightly acid,you may need two or three sheets if the auld Bartholins are a bit "flúirseach" as we Gaeilgóirs say.
To be recommended on special occasions, otherwise your ear gets sore.

az2wp0sye65487

S.I.R wrote: »

i agree 110% im always the funnier, sick half...


she is the politely laughing till i run out of material ( 10 or so lines... )

i think very few if any women are funny... i think they Can work well as a part of something ( teaming up, i set her up and she finishes it off kinda thing )

other then that... nah... dismall performances from 99.99% of women

Ah yes, they might not be funny god-love-'em; but they're great at the finisher-off-ers

Turd Ferguson

Women are funny. This one time I saw one of them drive...oh, I'm lolling just thinking about it

S.I.R

Aitana Strong Robber wrote: »

Ah yes, they might not be funny god-love-'em; but they're great at the finisher-off-ers

indeed, but the problem is you chance looking like a mupept if they dont get it, then you have to dumb it down...



you dumb it down too much they look at you funny...


the amount of girls ive broke up with due to a siht sense of humor