July 26, 2012

Adam Carolla's observation that chicks aren't funny . . . [Guest Blogger]
— Pixy Misa

. . . wouldn't have been nearly as controversial as it was if it weren't for the fact that it's so damned true. That is, to say that women aren't funny is every bit as true as it is to say that dogs have four legs. Everyone agrees with that. There's really no argument to be had unless you're just one of those literalist prigs who insist on challenging every generalization with every exception to every rule.

Yes, there are dogs with three legs. And everyone refers to them as three-legged dogs. People always remember three-legged dogs because they're exceptional in some way. But that doesn't mean it's false to say that dogs are four-legged creatures. Because they are, and you know it. And the same thing applies to the observation that "chicks aren't funny." Yes, there are some truly hilarious women, and we always remember them because they're unusual. (By way of brown-nosing example, the HQ's own LauraW immediately springs to mind.)

The difference is that if you find yourself at a party in a conversation about the funniest men down through history, you could easily find yourself still pulling names from the past long after the other guests have left and the host has gone to bed. By the same token, if you're talking about the truly great female comics, comediennes and comedic actors, after about ten minutes, you're snapping your fingers and blurting out, "JUDY TENUTA!!!" before shrugging your shoulders and walking off to refresh your drink. But, I can't help being struck by the bizarre phenomenon that is Roseanne Barr. She's one of those women who are generally thought of as funny by a certain percentage of the population, even though the instances of her actually being funny are far fewer in relation to the proportion of three-legged dogs to four-legged ones. And yet, it's generally accepted that she's funny, making her eligible for inclusion in the litany of funny women people will cite as examples of why Adam Carolla is a slithering misogynist.

As best I can tell, people who include Barr in their lists of funny women just have a completely different concept of what constitutes humor from mine. I tend to find humor in the apt expression of an unexpected and unorthodox thought, the exaggerated physical manifestation of human futility (e.g., other people being struck in the groin with blunt objects and projectiles), and the wages of hubris. Roseanne Barr fans, on the other hand, would seem to have an affinity for the sound of unattended car alarms.

You learn a lot about people when you discover what they find funny. We've established that both Carolla and I tend to find women to be less funny than men, which apparently means we're both prone to domestic violence. So, what does Roseanne find funny? Well, as it turns out: Cancer.

"[A]nyone who eats S**t Fil-A deserves to get the cancer that is sure to come from eating antibiotic filled tortured chickens 4Christ, (sic)" she tweeted Wednesday.

Referencing tweets Barr sent to another Twitter user, Twitchy said "Roseanne believes parents who feed their kids food from Chick-fil-A are child abusers."


Oh, yeah -- and child abuse, too. I forgot about that part. But that's apparently where Roseanne gets her jollies. As perverse as it may seem, you have to hope she's joking, anyway. Because, if the woman actually believes what she's tweeting, she's maybe one degree of psychosis away from harvesting the flesh of male prostitutes.

As I said above, you learn a lot about someone when you know what they find humor in. And if you list Roseanne Barr as a counterexample in demonstrating what makes Adam Carolla an irremediable sexist, you might want to reexamine your premise. And besides, even if you grant the notion that Carolla is the worst kind of male chauvinist pig, how is that worse than whatever the hell Roseanne is?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:25 AM | Comments (346)
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1 Chick be trippin' ...

Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 26, 2012 10:26 AM (GvYeG)

2 Mother of Gawd--It's almost a movie review--on crack.

Posted by: tasker at July 26, 2012 10:27 AM (r2PLg)

3 You learn a lot about people when you discover what they find funny.


Does this mean the moron horde is being analyzed?


Cause what we find funny, might shock a lot of people.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at July 26, 2012 10:27 AM (3ZjAP)

4 How do you go from women, three legged dog, Cancer!

Posted by: tasker at July 26, 2012 10:27 AM (r2PLg)

5 Shit--Chik Fil A is in there.

Posted by: tasker at July 26, 2012 10:28 AM (r2PLg)

6

 

Been enjoying your posts, Damn Dirty Rino.

Thanks!

Posted by: wheatie at July 26, 2012 10:28 AM (mtRB0)

7 Carolla does *not* say that women are not funny.  He says he knows lots of funny women.  He says they are not as funny as men.

Posted by: doug at July 26, 2012 10:29 AM (+C5m6)

8 Roseanne Barr is hilarious.

Posted by: Margaret Cho at July 26, 2012 10:30 AM (z9HTb)

9 Carolla's right - chicks just aren't as funny. And I'm a chick.Just don't get the current crop of funny women like Sara Silverman & Tina Fey. Alec Baldwin is the funniest part of 30 Rock - I hate him and yet he makes me laugh.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 26, 2012 10:30 AM (Qt4f7)

10
pretty sad when someone who sides with Roseanne Barr is allowed to post at AoS

Posted by: Soothsayer Blanket Jackson at July 26, 2012 10:30 AM (9Q7Nu)

11 National Anthem anyone ...???

Posted by: Honey Badger, drinker of mead at July 26, 2012 10:30 AM (GvYeG)

12 Queefs are funny.

Posted by: garrett at July 26, 2012 10:31 AM (EszeI)

13 I always found Rita Rudner and Elayne Boosler to be funny, mainly because they were telling jokes for women and I am one.  I also think Ellen DeGeneres is funny sometimes. 

Posted by: huerfano at July 26, 2012 10:31 AM (bAGA/)

14
and I'm not talking about this guy, whoever he is

Posted by: Soothsayer Blanket Jackson at July 26, 2012 10:31 AM (9Q7Nu)

15 For a long while I thought LauraW was a man impersonating a woman precisely because she is really honestly funny.


Posted by: BuckIV at July 26, 2012 10:31 AM (AtjNL)

16 Bering not as funny, is not the same as not having a better sense of humor.

Posted by: DerpManFish at July 26, 2012 10:31 AM (KN6kV)

17 White people be like ggggg..ghhgh..

And black people be like oooohhh uh huh uh huh

Posted by: Every black comedian ever on Comedy Cenral at July 26, 2012 10:32 AM (KXm42)

18 He's right. Its extremely rare to find a woman that is as funny as a guy. Its extremely rare to find a female comedian that's funny. Roseanne Barr's standup was pretty funny, actually but its rare. Most female comedians are like Margaret Cho.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:33 AM (r4wIV)

19 Barr, Cho, Goldberg, that chick whose name I can't remember who dragged Levi Johnston around?  Not funny.  Also Judy Tenuta.

Posted by: huerfano at July 26, 2012 10:33 AM (bAGA/)

20 Roseanne, you're a funny guy!

Posted by: Henry Hill at July 26, 2012 10:33 AM (yyxZI)

21

I'd laugh at that if I wasn't already busy laughing at Romney looking lovingly at Labour leader Ed Miliband in the photo linked from Drudge.

 

His "loving" look really pisses off libs.

Posted by: Hal Burton at July 26, 2012 10:34 AM (iYvMQ)

22 I still have respect for Joan Rivers.  She absolutely destroyed everyone else at her own roast.  She slags on Palin way too much, but hateful petty botoxed lefty bitches are her core audience.

Posted by: grognard at July 26, 2012 10:34 AM (NS2Mo)

23 I was so going to write something clever, like "Carolla Says Women Not Funny - Margaret Cho Hardest Hit."  Comment #9 did it so much better than me, that I'm gonna just shut up now.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at July 26, 2012 10:34 AM (Jdtsu)

24 Hey, Rosanne did have the exceptionally funny moment in a Snickers commercial when she got hit by a tree.

Wait, did I say "funny?" I meant satisfying.

Posted by: JSchuler at July 26, 2012 10:35 AM (SmZQt)

25 Wanda Sykes, errrr, OK not funny.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at July 26, 2012 10:35 AM (SDkq3)

26 I laugh my ass off every time I hear a Randi Rhodes rant. 

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 26, 2012 10:35 AM (vXf/G)

27 Roseanne was funny in the 80's with her 'Domestic Goddess' schtick, but today, she's just a mean liberal harpy.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at July 26, 2012 10:35 AM (UU0OF)

28

"...antibiotic filled tortured chickens..."?

 

No.

That would be....Kentucky Fried Chicken, which uses Tyson chicken exclusively.

I will not eat Tyson chicken.

It's loaded with antibiotics, and the chickens' feet never touch the ground....kept in tightly-packed cages their whole lives.

Posted by: wheatie at July 26, 2012 10:35 AM (mtRB0)

29 Really truly absolutely funny. Well after Gilda Radner I kinda draw a blank unless we're going as far back as Lucille Ball

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 10:36 AM (05RcU)

30 One time I saw Margaret Cho do this killer impersonation of her little Korean Grandmother.  True story.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 10:36 AM (KXm42)

31 When Roseanne Barr first started out in standup, she was funny, in small doses. Domestic Goddess

Posted by: toby928© at July 26, 2012 10:36 AM (QupBk)

32 I hate to be contrary but I find women to be hysterical.

Posted by: sTevo at July 26, 2012 10:36 AM (uIz80)

33 LauraW is a woman??!?

Posted by: Troll Feeder at July 26, 2012 10:36 AM (cf2IU)

34 I laugh my ass off every time I hear a Randi Rhodes rant.
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 26, 2012 02:35 PM

Especially when she takes out her teeth to do her Walter Brennan impression.

Posted by: huerfano at July 26, 2012 10:36 AM (bAGA/)

35 I was listening to Carolla's podcast with the yummy Candace Bailey earlier this week. He's a gun grabber.

Just a little reminder for the folks who like to confuse him for a conservative just because he's not as batshit crazy as most folks on the Left.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 10:37 AM (/AHDz)

36 He cribbed that riff from Christopher Hitchens and didn't give him credit. Asshat.

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

Posted by: Hitch Slapped at July 26, 2012 10:37 AM (B93TY)

37 Just because there are fewer women comics doesn't mean chicks are less funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2012 10:37 AM (rgtBW)

38 Technically, child abuse occurs when a parent allows their children to hear the sewage spewing from Barr's mouth.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 26, 2012 10:37 AM (HLFzM)

39 ust don't get the current crop of funny women like Sara Silverman....

I gotta agree. But when Sarah stripped down to her skimpies to complain about Romney, she kinda did grab my attention.....

When MKH does that -- which will be exactly never since she's now in the pay of Clownhall.com (and has lost a step or two in her sense of humor, IMO) -- I'm eager to reach across the aisle again.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 26, 2012 10:37 AM (wZI4b)

40 Lucille Ball.

Posted by: Hope You're Right at July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (lHTEq)

41 Rachel Corrie playing chicken with a bulldozer?  That was pretty funny...it was a 1-time only show never to be repeated though.

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (vXf/G)

42 Most women who are funny, are funny in a bathetic way.

Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (NpR/e)

43

alright, women might have a different type  of humor, perhaps aimed at fellow women, i can relate 

guys like fart and fat jokes. yo momma jokes. well ...

cough

shrug.

 

Posted by: willow at July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (TomZ9)

44 36 LauraW is a woman??!?

A woman and half if you count the hump.

Posted by: BuckIV at July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (AtjNL)

45 That "Top 10 Female Comedians" ought to be re-titled "10 Female Comedians". Sarah Silverman is the only one on there who is as consistently funny as a guy. Ellen used to be pretty good, too. After hours of observation by top scientists, it can be safely said that Wanda Sykes and Margaret Cho have never been funny. Phyllis Diller and Minnie Pearl? Here's a tip: when you need to go to the days of black and white to find funny women, you're making Adam's point for him.

Posted by: Zorachus at July 26, 2012 10:39 AM (PqDoz)

46 Some women are funny comedic actors, say Jane Kaczmarek. I don't know if that counts as to "Funny Women".

Posted by: toby928© at July 26, 2012 10:39 AM (QupBk)

47

perhaps i was generalizing.

Posted by: willow at July 26, 2012 10:39 AM (TomZ9)

48 But I think women were funnier in those days(Vivan Vance had her moments also), as the women didn't try to be funny in the same way that men are funny.

Posted by: Hope You're Right at July 26, 2012 10:39 AM (lHTEq)

49 What are you talking about? I laugh at hot chicks' jokes all the time.

Posted by: Z Ryan at July 26, 2012 10:39 AM (tsC/8)

50 Queen Latifa can be pretty funny...

Posted by: @PurpAv at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (vXf/G)

51 Women rarely do fart humor, so that's a strike against them. And when women do fuck humor, it seems out of place.

Posted by: toby928© at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (QupBk)

52

Yeah.  Women can be funny.  But are lesser on the funny scale.  That's why it's best to let female comics be enjoyed by their equally less funny female fans, and pretend they don't exist.  ------- ------- -------

 

 

What is equally unsayable is that this is true in every area of life.  If you want to have a serious discussion about art, music, architecture, philosophy, history, war, politics, religion, cooking, child rearing, gardening/farming, cars, guns, electronics, or any of the other things in life worth thinking/talking about - seek out a man.  He will probably be able to speak intelligently and at length about 1 or more of those topics.  Finding a woman who can do so is too challenging and time consuming to be worth the trouble. 

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (xUM1Q)

53 My theory on Roseanne Barr is that she's basically stupid and probably came to Hollywood more or less apolitical. She probably hated Reagan but couldn't have articulated why.

But then, soaking 24/7 in a Leftist environment and being basically stupid whilst ALSO becoming filthy rich, she completely lost her mind.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (/AHDz)

54 Testing.  Testing.

Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (zyCI6)

55 "Just because there are fewer women comics doesn't mean chicks are less funny." True, but personal experience proves the same thing. Guys are funnier to hang out with than women. The comedian thing is just one data set. And the reaction by women to Carrolla's statement more or less proves his point. If they were funny they'd rip him apart with comedy instead of shrill screaming noises.
And the funnier women I know tend to be more like the guys than the girls.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (r4wIV)

56 Moms Mabley was friggin' hilarious. I can imagine her rippin' Bark Obama a new one.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (wZI4b)

57 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (8y9MW)

58 Women can be very funny, but more on a personal level.  Generally, women clowns aren't very "attractive."

Posted by: Fritz at July 26, 2012 10:40 AM (0ZJ5N)

59 Joan Rivers

Ellen Degeneres

I don't know


QED, I should think- what?

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:41 AM (8sCoq)

60 There are not nearly as many good female stand-up comics as male ones. And yes, I think men are generally better than women at telling jokes and kidding around. OTOH, I think women are just as good as men at comedic acting. You'll come up with plenty of female names in that field, from Lucille Ball to Carol Burnett. I suspect men may be better at writing comedy but if I had a comedy show, I'd probably want a mixed-gender staff. We sometimes see humor in different things.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 26, 2012 10:41 AM (C8mVl)

61 Don't forget that Roseanne apparently thinks dressing up as a Nazi and pretending to bake "Jew cookies" is funny, too.

Her show was funny despite her, not because of her.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 26, 2012 10:41 AM (8y9MW)

62 Debbie Wasserman Schultz. From the hair to the inanities coming from her pie-hole.. Funn-eee

Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (136wp)

63 Gee when Joan Rivers and that Degeneres chick is the best you can do?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (05RcU)

64

Lucille Ball was roughly as funny as cholera.

 

Posted by: doug at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (75C2c)

65 Women can be very funny, but more on a personal level. Generally, women clowns aren't very "attractive." ****** And Adam Corolla-is a hunk!

Posted by: tasker at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (r2PLg)

66 Generally, women clowns aren't very "attractive."
Posted by: Fritz at July 26, 2012 02:40 PM

Mainly because the Clown Tradition has never gone in much for nudity.

Even Ellen could draw some attention if attired in a large red nose and nothin' else!

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (wZI4b)

67 wait- are we talking stand-up comedy, or comedic acting?

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (8sCoq)

68 Another problem is most female comedians do a form of feminist humor (i.e. they approach things from the Left/Feminist perspective). When was the last time you met a feminist with a sense of humor?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (Qt4f7)

69 26 Wanda Sykes, errrr, OK not funny.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at July 26, 2012 02:35 PM (SDkq3)


The ONLY thing that harpy has ever said that was funny is when she accused Larry David of being an ass-man on Curb Your Enthusiasm.


Posted by: grognard at July 26, 2012 10:42 AM (NS2Mo)

70 Most males aren't funny either.   Male comics, especially. 

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at July 26, 2012 10:43 AM (VLifP)

71 And yeah, Phyllis Diller was hysterical, but the exception proves the rule. She worked with guys like Henny Youngman, Milton Berle, and Bob Hope. She was the only girl that could keep up with them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:43 AM (r4wIV)

72 >Gee when Joan Rivers and that Degeneres chick is the best you can do?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 02:42 PM (05RcU)



I guess Carolla is right!

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:43 AM (8sCoq)

73 All dogs have four legs. They might just not be wearing all of them at the time.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at July 26, 2012 10:43 AM (v7Nqc)

74

 

Penises?

I think of them like fishing...

The big ones, you mount....the little ones, you throw back.

Posted by: funny chick jokes.... at July 26, 2012 10:43 AM (mtRB0)

75 @ 75 /70 something dirty movie JO are not funny...

Posted by: Clemenza at July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (jlQ7t)

76 Lucille Ball was roughly as funny as cholera. Heretic! I bet you thought Howdy Doody's acting was stiff and wooden.

Posted by: toby928© at July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (QupBk)

77 Roseanne is a bitter shrew. Some women find that hilarious. It's best to steer clear of such women.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (RD7QR)

78

No.
That would be....Kentucky Fried Chicken, which uses Tyson chicken exclusively.
I will not eat Tyson chicken.
It's loaded with antibiotics, and the chickens' feet never touch the ground....kept in tightly-packed cages their whole lives. Posted by: wheatie 

  At Los Pollos Hermanos, our zesty chicken is seasoned with only the freshes herbs and spices.

But don't expect dips like Cajun Kick-Ass or Franch. I put a stop to that shit.

Posted by: Peter Schuler, Madrigal Inc. at July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (tsC/8)

79 You say Roseanne Barr.  I say Jabba the Slut.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (Hx5uv)

80 Anna Faris doesn't do stand-up, but she makes me laugh in her movies

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (8sCoq)

81 Rosane Rossanadana

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 10:45 AM (05RcU)

82 It's a shame that Sarah Silverman is working for the enemy.  Some rightwinger needs to show her the shagging a real man can provide, and then maybe she'll get her head straight.  If she could be turned, she could become a powerful ally.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 10:45 AM (xUM1Q)

83 Kristen Wiig is funny AND hot

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:45 AM (8sCoq)

84

Sarah Sliverman has a nude scence in some movie. I give her a 4 on teh hotness scale. Weird shape, fried-egg boobs. And she probably smells like the Hudson at low tide. Meh.

Posted by: Devastatingly Handsome Keyboard Jockey at July 26, 2012 10:45 AM (YmPwQ)

85 Anna Faris is real cute too. Its true, women can be great comedic actors, but when it comes to stand up they just don't have it like guys do. Nick DiPaulo can make me laugh so hard I almost pass out.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:46 AM (r4wIV)

86 I think Eleanor Clift is extremely funny.

Posted by: Cricket at July 26, 2012 10:46 AM (DrC22)

87 Carol Burnett

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 10:46 AM (iYbLN)

88

Thought I had a brush once again with AoSHQ commenting death.  Re-booted and *big sigh* it works again.

 

Anyway,  I disagree that women can't be funny.  Lots of funny women.  Gracie Allen, Lucy Arnez, Imogene Coca, Gilda Radner, etc., etc.  When women became unfunny is when they started to become bitterly political.

Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2012 10:46 AM (zyCI6)

89 Gracie Allen, Lucy Arnez, Imogene Coca, Gilda Radner, etc., etc. When women became unfunny is when they started to become bitterly political. Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2012 02:46 PM (zyCI6) Actually those are good picks, but ya notice the youngest is Gilda who died so early

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 10:47 AM (05RcU)

90 maybe just me but I outgrew stand-up comics a long time ago you wouldn't catch me dead sitting down to listen to some fool stand there and crack jokes that I already know two seconds before the punchline

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 10:47 AM (9Q7Nu)

91 Most males aren't funny either. Male comics, especially.

True dat.....if your talking about the typical stand in front of a fake brick wall guys.

They are awful.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (KXm42)

92 Carol Burnett Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 02:46 PM (iYbLN) She was legitimately funny also- good pick

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (05RcU)

93 I just want to point out there is a new Chick-fil-A that opened here--the third in our fair city (not counting the campus)--and they have kindly sent me in the mail a coupon for free sandwiches. As they did when they opened the previous new one last year.

What's better then CfA? Free CfA.

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (imtbm)

94 Funny women? Take Roseanne Barr, please!

Posted by: Henny Youngman at July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (yyxZI)

95 Men think the Three Stooges are funny.  Enough said.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (ZtwUX)

96 Kristen Wiig

http://tinyurl.com/cpz4y3z

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:49 AM (8sCoq)

97 wasn't there an episode of FACTS Of LIFE with the deaf girl comedian with cerebral palsy?

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 10:49 AM (9Q7Nu)

98 Tom Arnold used to have sex with Roseanne.

On a regular basis.

Imagine that. Imagine how awful that must have been.  The smells. The taste. How did he do that?

Just try thinking about that for two seconds without freaking out.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 10:49 AM (/AHDz)

99 Rosanne Barr, male chauvinist pig.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 26, 2012 10:49 AM (eavT+)

100

>>Some rightwinger needs to show her the shagging a real man can provide

 

I'd volunteer to burn the fur off of that. 

Posted by: garrett at July 26, 2012 10:49 AM (EszeI)

101 Also on the list of "told they were funny" but really aren't: Sarah Silverman.

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 26, 2012 10:49 AM (imtbm)

102

my favorite guy humor is Bill Cosby,  back in the day, discussing family experiences (kids and parenting)

Dennis Miller, dry humor

Posted by: willow at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (TomZ9)

103 Yes Carol Burnett

knowing she was funny is sort of a carbon 14 dating thing


that skit where they did 'Gone With The Wind' and she had that green dress with the curtain rod stuck thru the back- priceless

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (8sCoq)

104 I didn't think Gilda Radner was funny at all, but Catherine O'Hara was on SCTV and SNL. Sketch comedy is more acting though, Carrolla was talking about stand up.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (r4wIV)

105 People told me that I had a very funny sense of humor.  Just before they said, "now please, just leave us alone."

Posted by: I'M DR. AMY BISHOP!!!!!! at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (QKKT0)

106 Most males aren't funny either. Male comics, especially.

---

The real problem is that comedy isn't funny anymore.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (Hx5uv)

107

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 02:49 PM (9Q7Nu)

 

Geri was Blair's cousin.

Posted by: garrett at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (EszeI)

108 Ruth Buzzi comes to mind. She held her own during the Dean Martin roasts.

Posted by: MrCaniac at July 26, 2012 10:50 AM (1grxW)

109 Ahem...I meant PIG!

Posted by: dananjcon at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (eavT+)

110 Some chicks can make other women laugh, but funny men can make men, women and household pets laugh.

Posted by: Abe Froman at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (E55AK)

111 >Imagine that. Imagine how awful that must have been. The smells. The taste. How did he do that?


Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (8sCoq)

112 amen kathy. and that SCREAMING  guy, i believe he is dead.

Posted by: willow at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (TomZ9)

113 "Men think the Three Stooges are funny. Enough said."
Women don't. 'nuff said.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (r4wIV)

114 I have to say I remember one thing Joan Rivers said which I regarded as extremely funny.


"I was at a dinner party where one actress had adopted a child from Africa and she was saying: ‘I want my children to know their heritage.’ I said: ‘lock them in a room and throw them a jar of flies.’"
-Joan Rivers

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (v7Nqc)

115 I like Carolla but I definitely don't always agree with his tastes in music , comedy or a host of other subjects. He makes good observations but a lot of his views still originate from living most of his life in West Hollywood. He also has that annoying habit of equivocation when talking politics. He can't bash some liberal issues without invoking the exception to the rule that you are able to find on the conservative side. His West Hollywood self cringes at being categorized as anything more than independent, socially liberal. Prager though may convince him that he just needs to come out of the conservative closet.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2012 10:51 AM (8xOfO)

116

Men think the Three Stooges are funny. Enough said.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 26, 2012 02:48 PM (ZtwUX)

 

------------

 

 

Women don't understand why the 3 Stooges are funny.  'Nuff said.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 10:52 AM (xUM1Q)

117 "Sarah Sliverman has a nude scence in some movie. I give her a 4 on teh hotness scale. Weird shape, fried-egg boobs. And she probably smells like the Hudson at low tide. Meh."
=====

Yup. I saw it on Pay Per View back in June. It's called "Take This Waltz." It was a good movie, but seeing her naked was not a pleasant experience.

Of course, the scene was deliberately non-erotic. Hell, even Michelle Williams, also nude, didn't present very attractively.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 10:52 AM (/AHDz)

118 Yes Carol Burnett

knowing she was funny is sort of a carbon 14 dating thing


that skit where they did 'Gone With The Wind' and she had that green dress with the curtain rod stuck thru the back- priceless
Posted by: Jones in CO

I truly believe she was the last really funny woman.  Imagine doing a one hour variety show every week and be consistently funny.  That is hard work and talent.

Mary Tyler Moore had her moments.  Today it's slim pickings.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 10:52 AM (iYbLN)

119 Its always been an incredibly small part of the population that can be genuinely funny in standup. There have always been dozens of lousy hacks for every one Steve Martin or Nick DiPaolo. But for every 10 of those guys there's one woman, or fewer.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:52 AM (r4wIV)

120 Sure there aren't as many good female comedians as male, but it seems to me that except for the "Red Eye" panel and Comedy Central, comedians in general don't get the regular late night exposure they used to get that enabled them to build a fan base. Jimmy "J.J." Walker had an interesting take on Leno during an interview on O'Reilly's show that aired a couple of weeks ago: O'REILLY: So how did Leno change? WALKER: He changed in terms of bringing on new talent, which is that spot which is Johnny Carson, Jack Parr, Steve Allen. He has not broken in his 20-something years on the air, he has not broken one major act. O'REILLY: But, you know, it's a different time now and the ratings pressure is so intense that a lot of times... http://tinyurl.com/cp7sh6z

Posted by: Reno_Dave at July 26, 2012 10:52 AM (OL4L4)

121

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 02:51 PM (r4wIV)

 

 

 

Damn - you beat me to it.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 10:52 AM (xUM1Q)

122 Oh and I think Kathleen Madigan is hilarious.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (8xOfO)

123

 

Why do people say "Grow some balls"?

Balls are weak and sensitive! 

If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina! Those things take a pounding!

Posted by: Betty White... at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (mtRB0)

124 Comediennes are Bi and Large bitter angry shrews who are not funny at all.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (eavT+)

125 > "Men think the Three Stooges are funny. Enough said."

Women don't. 'nuff said.


the one where they're plumbers


the one where Curly is a bullfighter

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (8sCoq)

126 O/T Any of you in Kansas City, MO., getting in  line for the Google gigabit fiber service? You lucky dogs! At $70 a month, that is some hot stuff.

Posted by: and irresolute at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (Q492A)

127 Guys are more funny because they have to come up with cutting remarks to friends and the comeback after receiving one.  We spar.  Girls don't do that.  They would just cry and leave the room if a friend said when they were running for that last cupcake their ass looked like two hippos hate-fucking in a denim sleeping bag.  They aren't supposed to be truly cutting,  just a good-natured jab that is clever.  That's what Barr doesn't get.  She would just say her friend's ass is fat as shit.  She just goes for mean.  No clever.  No funny.

Posted by: Dang at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (Ky1+e)

128 94--- But most of these women were comedic actresses. I think women are every bit as good as men in comedic acting, but when it comes to stand-up, not so much. Take Roseanne Barr. I think she was good in her sitcom role, but I always found her a snotty bore in her stage routines---long before she got politically vicious. Same with Wanda Sykes. Very funny actress in "The New Adventures of Old Christine," but rarely funny standing up.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 26, 2012 10:53 AM (C8mVl)

129 122

Now that's funny.

Joan Rivers could be cutting and funny at the same time.  A female Don Rickles.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (iYbLN)

130 The real problem is that comedy isn't funny anymore.

Brian Regan and Jim Gaffigan can make me laugh til my face falls off.  There's some guys that can still bring it.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (KXm42)

131 Carol Burnett

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 02:46 PM (iYbLN)


Phillis Diller.



Posted by: DiogenesLamp at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (v7Nqc)

132 It's called "Take This Waltz." It was a good movie, but seeing her naked was not a pleasant experience.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 02:52 PM (/AHDz)

 

 

How sad.  Well, some things look better in their packaging I guess.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (xUM1Q)

133 Meh. Humor is subjective. Certainly you can try to quantify the "funniness" of people based on their commercial success. In terms of comedians or comic actors, the numbers probably support his thesis (although I'd be curious to know if there's a gender split on consumption of "comedy." My hunch is that guys are more into that sort of activity than gals are.) But in terms of people I know who make me laugh, I know just as many funny women and men. Then again, I'm usually someone that people of both genders will comment on my being funny. So was my sister, so maybe it's genetic.

Posted by: Y-not at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (5H6zj)

134 That Greek Olympian girl who got tossed out was funny, though. Her tweet really cracked me up:
"“with so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitos will be eating home cooking.”
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there. Unless you're on the olympics committee, then its racist and grounds for being thrown out.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (r4wIV)

135 rolls eyes.

Posted by: willow at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (TomZ9)

136 Rosanne played the lead in the movie "She Devil" to perfection.   You could tell she loved the role.  And Linda Hunt was so adorable. 

Posted by: lan sing at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (9/NoY)

137 I hardly ever laugh out loud or even smile while watching sitcoms. The 'funny' registers in my brain but rarely does it evoke a physical reaction. One time I laughed out loud was while watching TAXI when JIM was taking his driving exam with Bobby, Alex, and Tony helping him. What does a yellow light mean? /whispers Slow down. What... Does...A... Yellow... Light... Mean? /whispers Slow down. repeat above

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (9Q7Nu)

138 Women are supposta be Hot, not funny.  Funny can be hot, but usually not

Posted by: the Bhudda, relaxing in Escondido at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (Dll6b)

139 "Men think the Three Stooges are funny. Enough said."

A plumber's wrench applied to the nose will resolve any dispute.

Posted by: Cicero at July 26, 2012 10:54 AM (QKKT0)

140 Oh, and it's just a division of labor. Standup is a mostly male thing with some women in it; comedic acting is a mostly female thing with some guys in it.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 26, 2012 10:55 AM (RD7QR)

141 >Imagine doing a one hour variety show every week and be consistently funny. That is hard work and talent.


and good writing, which also seems to be missing these days

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:55 AM (8sCoq)

142 They just don't make female Rodney Dangerfields

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 10:55 AM (05RcU)

143 I saw that episode, what, 35 years ago? And I still remember it vividly because it made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 10:55 AM (9Q7Nu)

144 Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 02:54 PM (9Q7Nu)


didja hear the one about the farmer who was outstanding in his field???

Posted by: the Bhudda, relaxing in Escondido at July 26, 2012 10:56 AM (Dll6b)

145 >Jim Gaffigan can make me laugh til my face falls off


Hot Pocket!

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 10:56 AM (8sCoq)

146  a vote for Jane Curtain

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (SO2Q8)

147 Woman comics?  Here's a funny one.  You don't laugh, "I will cut you"


http://tinyurl.com/yht7vob

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (3ZjAP)

148 maybe just me but I outgrew stand-up comics a long time ago

you wouldn't catch me dead sitting down to listen to some fool stand there and crack jokes that I already know two seconds before the punchline

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 02:47 PM (9Q7Nu)

 

 

-------------------------------------------------

 

 

Actually, some of the best  stand-up comedy I've seen are from  relative unknowns in our comedy houses and in the smaller  showrooms  in Vegas (though rare).  IMHO, comedy goes to shit when a comedian goes for the profanity shock, or the blatant sexual schtick. 

 

But I'm like you, I don't go out of my way to go to comedy shows.  I normally go when a group of people want to go.  

Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (zyCI6)

149 139

I forgot Ms. Diller.  That was an oversight.

The gags about her husband were great.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (iYbLN)

150 Yeah, the most encouraging sign for Carolla is his relatively new partnership with Dennis Prager. If that bromance continues long enough, I think Dennis might manage to pull Adam more definitively to the right.

In fact, Adam is starting to quote Dennis on his podcast from time to time. I think he's been a good influence.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (/AHDz)

151 I disagree with Adam.  For instance, I find the antics of Sheila Jackson Lee absolutely hilarious.

He didn't specify intentionally funny.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (SY2Kh)

152 This whole Chick-Fil-A thing is gonna backfire bigtime on the libs. They are demonstrating to even the most feeble-minded independent that tolerance is a one-way street.

You'd think that somehow Dan Cathy is discriminating against homos (perhaps something evil like locking the bathrooms at night, as municipalities now do).

No, his only "crime" is to express a non-politically correct opinion.

The libtards certainly can't tolerate any of that.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (+XVQe)

153 Men think the Three Stooges are funny. Enough said. As an aside, I watched the newish Three Stooges movie last weekend. It had it's moments but I think, oddly, it would have been better in black and white. And the actors really worked hard at getting the characters. Moe was mostly good, Larry had his moments but, Will Sasso had Curley down perfectly, every time, in every single thing. Two out of four stars.

Posted by: toby928© at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (QupBk)

154 However, Sweet Dee from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is a funny character.  But that's 'cause she's got 4 male co-writers.

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 26, 2012 10:57 AM (imtbm)

155 Geri was Blair's cousin. You should be embarrassed for knowing that.

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 10:58 AM (9Q7Nu)

156 Tell me about these Stooges.

Posted by: sexy foreign chick from Seinfeld at July 26, 2012 10:58 AM (5H6zj)

157

Wheatie, I hate to tell you this, but with the exception of a very few, almost all large scale commercial poultry operations are like Tyson's.  The birds come from brooder houses (chicken feets briefly on ground) from growers within a short radius of the kill plant.  Your boycott might have to be expanded to Churches, Popeyes, and every other restuarant that sells chicken.  Plus grocery stores, of course.  Unless you can real "free range" birds, you'll need to raise your own to be sure. 

Posted by: Charts and Darts at July 26, 2012 10:58 AM (WOAC4)

158 Doesn't it really depend on what you find funny before you make such a judgment? There have been many comedy movies that rake in the dough that base their comedies on fart and sex jokes...men territory. I just don't find low brow humor to be that funny. Sure a few jokes, but a constant 2 hours about the same 2 topics gets a good eye roll from me. Women find different things to be humorous. So just because I don't make jokes about bodily functions and sex, doesn't mean I'm not a funny person. In fact, I make my husband crack up quite a bit. I suck at telling jokes, but I don't really go much for jokes. I am more interested in someone who can make a funny observation or can be witty.

Posted by: KJB at July 26, 2012 10:58 AM (ES2k7)

159 @159, yeah, I start to giggle just glancing at a photo of Maxine Waters.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 26, 2012 10:58 AM (+XVQe)

160 " They just don't make female Rodney Dangerfields"
But they make Dominican ones!
http://tinyurl.com/d84aoac

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 10:58 AM (r4wIV)

161 Roseanne Barr  tastes funny.

Posted by: Ellen Degeneres at July 26, 2012 10:59 AM (VndSC)

162 The gags about her husband were great.

Fang, IIRC.

Posted by: Retread at July 26, 2012 10:59 AM (I2fq9)

163 The women who are truly funny (a rare talent) are comfortable around men.  They get a man's sense of humor and keep up with the big boys.  They in turn can make men and women both laugh.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 10:59 AM (iYbLN)

164 Imagine doing a one hour variety show every week and be consistently funny. That is hard work and talent.
and good writing, which also seems to be missing these days
****************
And without any swearing or overt vulgarity (vomiting, pooping, ejaculating, etc.).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 26, 2012 11:00 AM (Qt4f7)

165 Carol Burnett. Funny as fuck. Yes, women generally are not funny. But this one is a comedic legend.

Posted by: Chris R at July 26, 2012 11:00 AM (v362Z)

166 I like Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous.

Posted by: Redd at July 26, 2012 11:00 AM (JPTKx)

167 Men use humor to get a chick's attention. Chicks don't have to do that since they have, you know, tits and curvy asses and pretty faces and vaginas. Those things tend to attract all the attention they need. I'm not very good at horse-back riding cause, you know, I have a fucking car and don't need a horse.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 26, 2012 11:00 AM (R+6Q+)

168 If we're talking about comedic actors, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Madeline Kahn.

Posted by: Ed Wood vs Godzilla at July 26, 2012 11:01 AM (/w0Ry)

169

That link to "Top 10 Female Comedians" is just sad.

 

To pad the acheivements of Sarah Silverman they add: "She gained further public attention for her relationship with comedian Jimmy Kimmel."

 

Sad.

 

Wonder what it means that at least three of the 10 are gay. Just wonderin'. 

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:01 AM (9KqcB)

170

Why did the chicken cross the road? To give the narrow-minded Christian homophobe CANCER!


Bada-BING!

Posted by: Warden at July 26, 2012 11:01 AM (HzhBE)

171 now, are women good CEO's?

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:01 AM (9Q7Nu)

172 Chicks don't have to do that since they have, you know, tits and curvy asses and pretty faces and vaginas. Those things tend to attract all the attention they need. I'm not very good at horse-back riding cause, you know, I have a fucking car and don't need a horse. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 26, 2012 03:00 PM (R+6Q+) That's a great point

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 11:02 AM (05RcU)

173 The presumption that men make fart jokes to be funny shows a distinct ignorance of male comedy and comedians. Try these out, on Youtube:
Brian Regan
Nick DiPaolo
Bill Engvall
Jeff Foxworthy
Ron White
Mitch Hedburg
Greg Giraldo
Patrice O'Neal
Get back to us about fart jokes.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:02 AM (r4wIV)

174 I like Dee.  She funneh.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 11:02 AM (KXm42)

175 What happens when you combine a potato with a penis?

You get a dick-tater.


Get it?  Bwahahahahahaha

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 11:02 AM (iYbLN)

176
Women find different things to be humorous. So just because I don't make jokes about bodily functions and sex, doesn't mean I'm not a funny person. In fact, I make my husband crack up quite a bit.

I suck at telling jokes, but I don't really go much for jokes. I am more interested in someone who can make a funny observation or can be witty.

Posted by: KJB





Thog: This our comedy club. Humour here funny in different way.
Ornik: It not reinforce stereotypes.
Kug: Comedy come from character, real situations. Not abstract craziness.

Bender: Translation: Boring!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 26, 2012 11:02 AM (kdS6q)

177

160 This whole Chick-Fil-A thing is gonna backfire bigtime on the libs. They are demonstrating to even the most feeble-minded independent that tolerance is a one-way street.

 

Yep.

It's like they're saying...

"We demand that you be tolerant of what we tell you to be tolerant of! ....We will not tolerate anything less!"

Posted by: wheatie at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (mtRB0)

178 Geraldine was pretty damn funny, too.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (wZI4b)

179 Correction: At least FOUR of the "top 10 femail comedians" listed are gay. Just wonderin'.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (9KqcB)

180 I'm surprised no one has mentioned Madeline Kahn. Posted by: Ed Wood vs Godzilla

"Ah,  I feew wefweshed."

Posted by: Dang at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (Ky1+e)

181 Yes, Madeline Kahn was hilarious, but again: comedic acting, not stand up.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (r4wIV)

182 Why did the chicken cross the road? To give the narrow-mindedChristian homophobe CANCER!
Bada-BING!

Posted by: Warden at July 26, 2012 03:01 PM (HzhBE)

Oh, if we're going this route, I have to tell you this one.


Why did the pervert cross the road?


Cause his dick was stuck in the Chicken!

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (v7Nqc)

183 If we're talking about comedic actors, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Madeline Kahn. Posted by: Ed Wood vs Godzilla


OMG, how could I have forgotten Ms. Kahn?

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 11:03 AM (iYbLN)

184 If we're talking about comedic actors, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Madeline Kahn.

The funny thing about Madeline Kahn was she was a really serious person in real life.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (KXm42)

185 Dame Edna was grotesque. And "Madame" was miserable.

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (9Q7Nu)

186 Standup comedy by and large sucks, and has always sucked.

There are still funny TV shows though. Red Eye makes me cry with laughter about every other episode(given there is no Paul Mecurio).

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (xAtAj)

187 I'd never heard of Sarah Silverman until I read a profile of her in Rolling Stone (or GQ -- I can't remember) sometime in the '90s.

They insisted that she was THE FUNNIEST WOMAN WHO HAD EVER LIVED. AND HOT, TOO! SHE'S SCORCHING HOT! EVERYBODY WANTS TO BONE HER AND YOU WILL TOO!!!!!!1!

And I took them at their word, until I finally saw her act. She was funny, but they'd really overdone it.

Posted by: Kensington at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (/AHDz)

188

Chicks don't have to do that since they have, you know, tits and curvy asses and pretty faces and vaginas. Those things tend to attract all the attention they need.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 26, 2012 03:00 PM (R+6Q+)

 

---------------

 

 

Good point.  I assume this is why when judged objectively I'd have to say that I've heard more genuinely funny humor/jokes from chubby girls than from cute ones. 

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (xUM1Q)

189

>>Men use humor to get a chick's attention.

 

I guess that works. 

Money works better.

Posted by: Bill Maher at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (EszeI)

190 Women are funny, especially Conservative women, but, the comedy circuit is a brutal, exhausting way to make it in show biz and just like the rest of show biz, the comedy channels have no room for Conservatives of either sex.

Posted by: Will Not Assimilate For Food at July 26, 2012 11:04 AM (kXoT0)

191 Carolla's right - chicks just aren't as funny. And I'm a chick.Just don't get the current crop of funny women like Sara Silverman Tina Fey. Alec Baldwin is the funniest part of 30 Rock - I hate him and yet he makes me laugh.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 26, 2012 02:30 PM (Qt4f7)

 

I actually feel the same way about Silverman and Fey: I hate their politics but they make me laugh. Silverman's show was bizarre and funny.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:05 AM (9KqcB)

192 I think the people who float this "women aren't funny" meme every week at AoShq doth protest too much.

Posted by: Redd at July 26, 2012 11:05 AM (JPTKx)

193 When I was in college in the 80's before (and just after) she made it, Roseanne performed at our hole-in-the-wall on-campus night club in Boulder.  The first time I saw her she was funny.  Then she had her first Tonight Show appearance.  5 minute of the best jokes from act.  Funny.  Then I saw her two more times.  The exact same act, all three time I saw her live.  But it was a good act.  It started out "Yeah, I'm fat" and went on and on with self-deprecating humor delivered well for the rest of the show.  But no new material over about 18 months.

I think she burned through all her funny pretty quickly and just got angry.


Posted by: Fritz at July 26, 2012 11:05 AM (U0t2o)

194

It's true--women are not as funny as men, overall. Also, they haven't written as many great novels, done as much great math, or done as much great philosophy.

However, ladies, think of the future. Women need to stop thinking so much about sexism and feminism and all that, and think more about, say, good jokes, good novel plots, important math conundrums, and Being and Nonbeing.

Meanwhile, there's Jane Austen and Gilda Radner. And Maggie Smith.

 

 

Posted by: Molly at July 26, 2012 11:05 AM (t495v)

195 I am not saying all men do fart jokes, but, be honest, take the last top ten comedy films and most of the big laughs centered around bodily functions and sex. And since when do you know any women who laugh uncontrollably about fart jokes? Maybe the first one or two, but then the humor is over. Just like men who never seem to get tired of the hilarious accidents involving men and their groins. Watch the movie "Idiocracy" and you will find many truths in there about men and humor. As a whole...a generalization. Which is what the 'women aren't as funny as men' statement is: a generalization that is insulting to all the funny women out there!

Posted by: KJB at July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (ES2k7)

196 Also, women have a very different sense of humor from men. Here's what it means when you see a woman laughing on a date -- she finds the guy really attractive. Seriously, he can be super funny or slightly funny or kinda dull -- if she finds him attractive she's gonna laugh at everything he says. A good-looking high status guy will get laughs from almost all women. A low status loser guy could say the exact same words, in the exact same tone, and get no laughs at all.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (R+6Q+)

197

I nominate alexthechick as another funny Moronette, although she may slag me with her stompy boots and deathray eyes for saying so.

 

But on the whole I absolutely agree with Carolla.  There are individual women who can be funny, but    in general     female "comediennes" are pretty meh.  Especially "modern" comediennes.    Whenever a female comic pops up on TV I immediately mute it or change the channel because I KNOW her routine is going to rotate exclusively around her reproductive system:      sex, sex, breasts,    menstruation, sex, stupid men, sex.   It's boring.       

 

The funniest woman   I     can think of off the top of my head was     Madeline Kahn.      LOVED her.      My friends and I still use her little monologue from Clue about rage whenever we're pissed off about something:

 

"I hated her SO MUCH...  Flames.... on the side of my face.  Breathing... breath... HEAVING breaths...." 

 

And she was hysterical in Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (4df7R)

198 Bender: Translation: Boring!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 26, 2012 03:02 PM (kdS6q)

 

----------------------

 

LOL - best Futurama episode EVER.  Especially since it also included "Death - by Snu Snu!"

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (xUM1Q)

199 " I've heard more genuinely funny humor/jokes from chubby girls than from cute ones."
Chubby girls are more fun to hang out with usually too. They are having fun and being with you instead of trying to be pretty and admired and not do anything that might not look sexy and pretty.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (r4wIV)

200 Have I not been saying for two days that frosted tarts are not funny?

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at July 26, 2012 11:07 AM (SDkq3)

201 He's right. Its extremely rare to find a woman that is as funny as a guy. Its extremely rare to find a female comedian that's funny. Roseanne Barr's standup was pretty funny, actually but its rare. Most female comedians are like Margaret Cho.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 02:33 PM (r4wIV)

 

Barr was actually OK when she was a fat housewife doing regular, non-political fat housewife gags. Went downhill after that.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:07 AM (9KqcB)

202 Money works better. Posted by: Bill Maher at July 26, 2012 03:04 PM (EszeI) Maria Bartiromo was the "Money Honey"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 11:07 AM (05RcU)

203 Silverman's schtick was funny 25 years ago when Dice did it.

Posted by: MrCaniac at July 26, 2012 11:07 AM (1grxW)

204 You know who wasn't funny? all the girls on Friends, especially Pheobe

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:08 AM (9Q7Nu)

205 Testing. Testing. Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2012 02:40 PM (zyCI6) Testes... testes... one, two... three?

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 26, 2012 11:08 AM (XvHmy)

206 You laugh or I'll cut you!

Posted by: Bon Qui Qui at July 26, 2012 11:08 AM (3ZjAP)

207 Does anybuddy remember NATALIE from The FACTS of LiFE? She was a HOOT and also that tough but sometimes sensative Joe!

Posted by: Wardenwing Plover at July 26, 2012 11:09 AM (HzhBE)

208

 

 

I always thought Jan Hooks was a funny motherfucker.

 

 

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz. Bunnies. Trump. at July 26, 2012 11:09 AM (tcSZb)

209 Sarah Silverman: Self-loathing Jew, not funny.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 11:09 AM (iYbLN)

210 Cancer is only funny when it happens to a Republican... and then it's hilarious!

Posted by: Generic Female Comic at July 26, 2012 11:09 AM (XvHmy)

211 yeah, Jan Hooks was good on 3rd Rock that was a very good show

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:10 AM (9Q7Nu)

212 A majority of the modern actresses I consider funny are British, e.g., Patricia Routledge.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 26, 2012 11:10 AM (YjDyJ)

213

#124 Why I Oughtta....
Smart women think the (original) Stooges are funny and they know why

'You Nazty Spy', 1940

Posted by: Emily Latella at July 26, 2012 11:10 AM (8g9qq)

214

Have I not been saying for two days that frosted tarts are not funny?

 

Try getting it in her eye.  Always a laugh.

Posted by: garrett at July 26, 2012 11:11 AM (EszeI)

215 the Fox girls on The Five are pretty funny

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 11:11 AM (05RcU)

216 There are not nearly as many good female stand-up comics as male ones -------------------------------------- I ranted about this the last time Adam Carolla's "chicks aren't funny" thing came up, but it's still true---this fact says more about what it takes to be a good stand up comic then it does about whether women are funny. Stand-ups have to keep night-owl hours and travel all over the country hanging out in smoky, drinky bars. This is fine for men of all walks of life, and fine for women who don't have kids, and most women want kids. Most men do, too, but no one is going to call them a bad dad if they fly while their kid is gestating or let someone else take the kids to daycare because they were up til 3 the night before. So, yeah...the women who become successful standups are mostly lesbians or close enough or they have already been labeled a bad mom enough that it doesn't sting anymore (Brett Butler and Roseanne) so women who may have been funny standups move into being funny comedic actresses or talk show hosts. Because most comedy writers hone their craft through standup, this also weeds straight, normal women out of the comedy writers pool.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at July 26, 2012 11:11 AM (FIYvq)

217 Past comedians like Bill Cosby and  Bob Newhart (and Carol Burnett, btw) didn't depend on bad language or fart jokes, but their humor is still superior to chicks like Silverman, Barr, Cho, and Griffin. They could find the humor in everyday situations and make you laugh your butt off. 

Posted by: Lizzy at July 26, 2012 11:11 AM (Qt4f7)

218 all the women on 3rd Rock pulled their own weight -- Sally was a hoot but the best parts were with Dick torturing Jane Curtain

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:11 AM (9Q7Nu)

219 I think women are funny.  At least, the audiences that pay to see me say that.
Roseanne Barr?  Bitter hack with mental problems.


Posted by: Tamminator at July 26, 2012 11:12 AM (hGi/Q)

220 I'll put in a vote for Maria Bamford as funny standup, albeit in small doses. I wouldn't pay to see her, or any other femedian, whereas I've paid to see Ron White, Dave Atell, and Lewis Black in recent memory.

Posted by: jakeman at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (96M6e)

221 216 Does anybuddy remember NATALIE from The FACTS of LiFE? She was a HOOT and also that tough but sometimes sensative Joe!

Posted by: Wardenwing Plover at July 26, 2012 03:09 PM (HzhBE)

 

I realize this is a sarcastic comment, but as an aside,       as a little girl I loathed Natalie with every fiber of my being.   It was completely irrational, but I just couldn't stand her.    I know she was kind of supposed to be the "every girl" of the group, but everytime she spoke I wanted to cover my ears and do the "La La I Can't Hear You" routine.   The fact that     her character grew up, if I'm remembering correctly, to be a feminist bitch would seem to indicate my "regressive bitch" radar was already functioning at a very young age.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (4df7R)

222 I find the notion that Janet Napolitano is a woman funny.

Posted by: garrett at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (EszeI)

223 Wait...Roseann Barr is a woman?!?

Posted by: mr. scorpio at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (GKgjv)

224 My problem with most women comedians is that they make fun of guys.

This may ramble a bit.

Comedy is mostly funny when it either takes something we've all observed or know to be true, and exaggerates it, or when it is, in some way making fun of the Comedian.  Guys who use women as punchlines- with rare exceptions- aren't very funny.  White guys who use minorities (and vice versa), with rare exceptions- aren't very funny.

Well, most women tend to (in my experience) use guys as punchlines.  Rarely, they can pull it off.  Usually, they can't.  Thus, they usually aren't as funny as guys.

The thing about the Great Comediennes of yesteryear is that they understood this.  Lucile Ball (Arnez), Carol Burnette, and others usually made themselves the punchline in some way. 

Rodney Dangerfield was less funny, because that was his only schtick, but Bill Cosby and Johnny Carson were great at it, as are several of the modern "blue collar comedy" folks (Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engval, etc.).

A lot of "comedy" though is just put-downs on stage.  Even the "good" examples get stale and old after a while.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (8y9MW)

225 Chubby girls are more fun to hang out with usually too. They are having fun and being with you instead of trying to be pretty and admired and not do anything that might not look sexy and pretty.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 03:06 PM (r4wIV)

 

 

 

Yep.  Sometimes, if they're non-political, lesbos are like that too.  Cuz the sex is off the table, so they relax and act like humans.  Plus their brains are wired more like a man's in some ways, so there's more common ground.

 

 

A friend of mine dated a chick who later decided she wanted to date girls.  Up until that time all the guys in our circle liked her - she was fun to hang out with.  Of course, we had no beef with her after the startling turn of events, but obviously hanging out after that was out of the question.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (xUM1Q)

226 copy and paste from NOTEPAD, please.

Posted by: © Sponge at July 26, 2012 11:13 AM (UK9cE)

227 TOOTIE's boobs grew enormously in the 3rd season

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:14 AM (9Q7Nu)

228 " I've heard more genuinely funny humor/jokes from chubby girls than from cute ones."

Well, duh. 

Guys will give cute petite (I reject your premise that "cute" and "chubby" are mutually exclusive) girls attention no matter how boring, stupid, or bitchy they are.  Cute big girls have to work for attention.

Cookies, cakes, brownies, and pies used to work, back before every grocery store installed a bakery where such things could be purchased.  Oh well.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 26, 2012 11:14 AM (ZKzrr)

229 Carol Burnett also allowed the others on the show to shine.  Harvey Korman, Tim Conway.  That is pure class.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 11:14 AM (iYbLN)

230 all the women on 3rd Rock pulled their own weight -- Sally was a hoot

but the best parts were with Dick torturing Jane Curtain

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 03:11 PM (9Q7Nu)



There's a BIG difference between a woman being funny and being a good actress.

Posted by: © Sponge at July 26, 2012 11:14 AM (UK9cE)

231 Chubby girls are more fun to hang out with usually too. They are having fun and being with you instead of trying to be pretty and admired and not do anything that might not look sexy and pretty.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 03:06 PM (r4wIV)

 

 

-------------------------------------------------

 

 

They give the best bj's too.

Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2012 11:14 AM (zyCI6)

232 222 A majority of the modern actresses I consider funny are British, e.g., Patricia Routledge.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 26, 2012 03:10 PM (YjDyJ)

 

Mollie Sugden!   Does she count?    If you don't think Mrs. Slocombe was/is a riot, then you're either dead or a Democrat.   Or both, since they're not mutually exclusive.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 26, 2012 11:15 AM (4df7R)

233 "You know who wasn't funny? all the girls on Friends, especially Pheobe"
Really nobody was all that funny on that show. I can't figure out why on earth it was on so long.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:15 AM (r4wIV)

234 Sponge, do you think Meryl Streep can be funny on a sitcom?

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:15 AM (9Q7Nu)

235

Kristen Wiig

 

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 26, 2012 02:49 PM (8sCoq)

 

Not a standup, but I loves me some Wiig. Many of the chicks on SNL were pretty funny. Love Amy Poehler.

 

And funny, or at least witty, women are sexy.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (9KqcB)

236 Good point. I assume this is why when judged objectively I'd have to say that I've heard more genuinely funny humor/jokes from chubby girls than from cute ones. Posted by: Reactionary


But then you get the fat girl who thinks she's funny because she's egged on to be obnoxious and loud at TGIFridays by girls who think she's funny,  when she really isn't.  Worst thing in the world.

A fat guy who thinks he's funny gets egged on by friends to try and jump over a hot tub when he's drunk and breaks his ankle.  And that,  is funny.

Posted by: Dang at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (Ky1+e)

237 "Cookies, cakes, brownies, and pies used to work, back before every grocery store installed a bakery where such things could be purchased."
They still work, women just don't want to put the effort into it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (r4wIV)

238 I mean funny on a weekly basis, not for just one cameo.

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (9Q7Nu)

239 207 Did you explain how the women's good fundamentals make up for their inability to dunk?

Posted by: Chris R at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (v362Z)

240 Really nobody was all that funny on that show. I can't figure out why on earth it was on so long.

Good chemistry I guess.  I didn't get it either.

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (KXm42)

241 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFFGYIPxNUg

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (xAtAj)

242 #200 Silverman and Fey are so politically obnoxious I can't get past it - makes them each extremely unattractive and unfunny

Posted by: Emily Latella at July 26, 2012 11:16 AM (8g9qq)

243 Uh oh, Romney has insulted the Brits about their lack of preparation for the Olympics. He said something along the lines of they looked like a monkey fucking a football. PM Cameron said he did not know that was a Olympic event but that they had included a Chinese fire drill  and would discuss it with Romney later/

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 26, 2012 11:17 AM (mFxQX)

244 A couple of them, like Kathy Griffin and Whoppi, may be Top 10 in bank but are profoundly unfunny.

Posted by: logprof at July 26, 2012 11:17 AM (imVgX)

245 The church lady cracks me up ...oh wait.

Posted by: sTevo at July 26, 2012 11:17 AM (uIz80)

246 238 Not coincidentally, I developed a massive crush on Kim Fields during the third season. Jermaine Jackson was so nice to her.

Posted by: Chris R at July 26, 2012 11:17 AM (v362Z)

247 No love for Lisa Lampinelli? I haven't seen her stand-up but she can hold her own in an unscripted back-and-forth which is how I judge whether someone is funny or not.

Are you funny off the cuff? Then you're funny. If you're only funny on stage it means you have good writers.

Posted by: BuckIV at July 26, 2012 11:18 AM (AtjNL)

248

I reject your premise that "cute" and "chubby" are mutually exclusive
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 26, 2012 03:14 PM (ZKzrr)

 

 

Of course you do sweetie.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:18 AM (xUM1Q)

249

Comedy is mostly funny when it either takes something we've all observed or know to be true, and exaggerates it, or when it is, in some way making fun of the Comedian. Guys who use women as punchlines- with rare exceptions- aren't very funny. White guys who use minorities (and vice versa), with rare exceptions- aren't very funny.


 

This.   This is the reason I always thought     Ellen DeGeneres was great at standup, before she came out of the closet.   Since the sex thing wasn't    going to fly, she'd make humorous observations about everyday life.  My favorite bit of hers was when she'd describe how people would try to get every last ounce of salt out of the little packets of airplane peanuts.   it was just FUNNY, without being political or sexual or crude.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at July 26, 2012 11:18 AM (4df7R)

250 The % of female comic writers is even smaller than the % of women who are good comic actors. Lucille Ball was an excellent physical comic. She had a team of male writers, of course. It's the smart, awkward guy who spends his teens frantically trying to think up something funny to get attention that becomes a comedy writer. A lot of comedy writers are also whip-smart. And men have a wider IQ distribution (more super smart men and also more super stupid men). Almost every job that requires a super high IQ skews strongly male because men dominate the high end of the bell curve. They also dominate the prisons and homeless retard population. This is true of most mammalian traits -- the male of the species exhibits greater variation (height, weight, fecundity, IQ, coloring, strength, etc, etc) than the female. Men are nature's way of rolling the dice. Cause a super-stud can have hundreds of kids. So nature risks having two infertile idiots for every whip-smart super-stud. The odds of never breeding are much higher for males. Remember, for every guy with 10 kids by 5 women, there are 5 dudes who never reproduce at all.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 26, 2012 11:18 AM (R+6Q+)

251 I was always the cute little redhead with the curly hair.  My so called gal pals were the pretty ones with straight blond hair, etc. (whore, all of them.)  So I always found myself hanging out with the guys. I always thought men were just funnier and they also appreciated my sense of humor.

Growing up around a lot of men made me appreciate them more.  My father had a wonderful sense of the ridiculous and passed it on to me.

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 11:18 AM (iYbLN)

252 Remember JANET JACKSON on GOOD TIMES?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 26, 2012 11:18 AM (9Q7Nu)

253

Lucile Ball (Arnez), Carol Burnette, and others usually made themselves the punchline in some way.

 

Good point. You just don't see self-deprecating humor from women too much. Brian Regan has made a career out of it. He is consistantly funny.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:19 AM (9KqcB)

254 Brazil 3 Egypt 0. And they keep saying that Egypt is playing for pride? Now that's funny

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2012 11:19 AM (05RcU)

255 TOOTIE had braces on her teeth... and wore a DD bra.

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 26, 2012 11:20 AM (9Q7Nu)

256 >>They still work, women just don't want to put the effort into it.

I do.  Doesn't work.  Mostly because men would rather date women who spend twelve hours at the hairdresser and just pick up a pie on the way home than one who can make a crust from scratch.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at July 26, 2012 11:20 AM (ZKzrr)

257 Kristen Johnston ("Sally" on 3rd Rock) got a nosebleed in her rush to jump on the noisy, noisome "George Bush is a fascist warmonger" bandwagon back in the day, if memory serves. Zod has no problem with fascists. He does have a problem with thick-lipped blondes who *accuse* humans of fascism. She is a cunt.

Posted by: General Zod at July 26, 2012 11:20 AM (2+bRt)

258

Did you explain how the women's good fundamentals make up for their inability to dunk?
Posted by: Chris R at July 26, 2012 03:16 PM (v362Z)

 


LOL!  I howl every time I see that episode re-run. 

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:20 AM (xUM1Q)

259 Fat, stoopid, and queer ain't no way to go through life Rosey. I would suggest a lethal dose of D-Con.

Posted by: maddogg at July 26, 2012 11:20 AM (OlN4e)

260 What was that show with the little girl... Punky Brewster. They had to cancel that show because Punky's boobs were getting out of hand. That's what I think happened, anyway. She ended up having massive reductive surgery.

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 26, 2012 11:21 AM (9Q7Nu)

261 "I reject your premise that "cute" and "chubby" are mutually exclusive"
chubby girls are usually cute. And the ones that aren't are usually fun. Then there are the bitter, angry ones that are just hell to be near for everyone.
Its almost a law that to be really funny, you have to be really miserable though. Almost every hysterical comedian you see is a miserable depressed wreck when off stage.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:21 AM (r4wIV)

262

I was always the cute little redhead with the curly hair. My so called gal pals were the pretty ones with straight blond hair, etc. (whore, all of them.) So I always found myself hanging out with the guys. I always thought men were just funnier and they also appreciated my sense of humor.

 

Growing up around a lot of men made me appreciate them more. My father had a wonderful sense of the ridiculous and passed it on to me.

 

Posted by: mpfs at July 26, 2012 03:18 PM (iYbLN)

 

That sounds a lot like me wife. I courted her via three months of ridiculous email correspondance, trying to make her laugh, and damn if she didn't keep pace (pretty much.)

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:21 AM (9KqcB)

263
You know, that Kathy Griffin is a scream!  She's kind of like Keith Olbermann with a vajayjay.   And that bit about shooting GW Bush in the head?  That's comedy gold, Jerry!

Posted by: Wodeshed at July 26, 2012 11:22 AM (UuLBC)

264

>>She ended up having massive reductive surgery.

 

Tonight, on a very special Punky Brewster...

Posted by: garrett at July 26, 2012 11:22 AM (EszeI)

265 " Mostly because men would rather date women who spend twelve hours at the hairdresser and just pick up a pie on the way home than one who can make a crust from scratch."
If I wasn't such a lousy catch I'd ask you to marry me on that basis alone heh

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:22 AM (r4wIV)

266

...there are 5 dudes who never reproduce at all.
 
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 26, 2012 03:18 PM (R+6Q+)

 


Or as I call them, "the happy ones."

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:22 AM (xUM1Q)

267

chubby girls are usually cute.

 

And stacked.  

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:23 AM (9KqcB)

268
Oh, and Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg?  Insanity!

Posted by: Wodeshed at July 26, 2012 11:23 AM (UuLBC)

269 I've had hemorrhoids funnier than Roseanne Barr.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 26, 2012 11:24 AM (8JpQH)

270 Sure she's a lib, but I'd have to rank Amy Poehler as the funniest woman going right now. Parks and Rec is also funnier than 30 Rock.

Posted by: logprof at July 26, 2012 11:24 AM (imVgX)

271 NOOD POST

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at July 26, 2012 11:24 AM (9Q7Nu)

272

She ended up having massive reductive surgery.

 

When will the UN get around to a worldwide ban on that crime against humanity?

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:24 AM (9KqcB)

273 By the way, if you haven't heard the word, Ric Locke, author of Temporary Duty and he who needed an oxygen device, has apparently died. Sorry to bring down the mood

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:24 AM (r4wIV)

274 132Comediennes are Bi and Large bitter angry shrews who are not funny at all.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 26, 2012 02:53 PM (eavT+)

===============

iswydt...and it made me spew my drink on the monitor

Posted by: eurw at July 26, 2012 11:25 AM (2i1SY)

275 242 222 Mollie Sugden! Does she count? If you don't think Mrs. Slocombe was/is a riot, then you're either dead or a Democrat. Or both, since they're not mutually exclusive.

"Best of Betty Slocombe"
http://youtu.be/4tVJK9FmMNU

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 26, 2012 11:25 AM (YjDyJ)

276

And stacked.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 03:23 PM (9KqcB)

 

 

The saddest thing in the world:  A chubby girl with small boobs. 

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:25 AM (xUM1Q)

277 Sure she's a lib, but I'd have to rank Amy Poehler as the funniest woman going right now. Parks and Rec is also funnier than 30 Rock.

Posted by: logprof at July 26, 2012 03:24 PM (imVgX)

 

Check out Upright Citizens Brigade. She was awesome. Great sketch comedy for three seasons.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:25 AM (9KqcB)

278 The funniest posters over at ruminations.com are chicks.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Valiant at July 26, 2012 11:26 AM (aFxlY)

279 That sounds a lot like me wife. I courted her via three months of ridiculous email correspondance, trying to make her laugh, and damn if she didn't keep pace (pretty much.)

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 03:21 PM (9KqcB) <<<<<

 

 

 

 

Funny you should mention that. I'm courting a Canadian girl the same way. But if I don't get my ass up there pretty damn quick, I'm gonna run outta silly assed shit to amuse her. Hurry up passport drones, yer killin me......

Posted by: maddogg at July 26, 2012 11:26 AM (OlN4e)

280 The saddest thing in the world: A chubby girl with small boobs.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 03:25 PM (xUM1Q)

 

Ha. You stole my oft-repeated line.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:26 AM (9KqcB)

281 Tammy pescatelli is pretty funny comedian. though just listening to her you know she was always hanging out with the guys.

Posted by: buzzion at July 26, 2012 11:26 AM (3wr+t)

282 You just don't see self-deprecating humor from women too much.

It doesn't even have to be specifically self-deprecating (like I said, Rodney Dangerfield was only mostly funny; he needed more variety).  But making fun of others, especially generalized groups is hard to do well.  Yet that's exactly what most female comics try to do.

This is also my problem with virtually every romance movie out there- the fault is always that of the guy, even when it was the girl who did something wrong (he should have "understood" or "given her a chance to explain" or whatever).  Pretty quick, they stop being absurd situations (or jokes) and start being insults.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 26, 2012 11:26 AM (8y9MW)

283 Check out Upright Citizens Brigade. She was awesome. Great sketch comedy for three seasons.

"I will not fornicate with you!!!!"

Posted by: eleven at July 26, 2012 11:26 AM (KXm42)

284 "The saddest thing in the world: A chubby girl with small boobs. "
I dunno I think that's kind of hawt. Something wrong with me, likely.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:27 AM (r4wIV)

285 "Best of Betty Slocombe"
I laugh every time I watch "Are You Being Served."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:28 AM (r4wIV)

286 Why do women wear make-up and perfume? Because they're ugly and they stink. Never gets old......

Posted by: mbruce at July 26, 2012 11:29 AM (Fr8N6)

287 Gilda Radner
Lucille Ball
Madeline Kahn
Carol Burnette
Alex Borstein
Debra Wilson
Mo Collins

Not necessarily in that order.

Posted by: mrp at July 26, 2012 11:30 AM (HjPtV)

288

I'm courting a Canadian girl the same way. But if I don't get my ass up there pretty damn quick, I'm gonna run outta silly assed shit to amuse her. Hurry up passport drones, yer killin me......

 

Posted by: maddogg at July 26, 2012 03:26 PM (OlN4e)

 

Good luck maddogg. I was in PA and she was in North Carolina. Lots of email before I went down there. Some silly shit to stretch it out:

 

Lists. I'd list the Top 5 Chistmas presents I ever got and then she had to. Or "what's in your fridge right now?" "Who was your best friend in grade school?" "Guilty Pleasures: Music & TV" etc.

 

She actually saved them and printed them out, it's about an inch-think stack of emails. Have fun.

Posted by: CJ at July 26, 2012 11:31 AM (9KqcB)

289 I find woman funny as well...In a repulsive kind of way.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at July 26, 2012 11:31 AM (eavT+)

290

I dunno I think that's kind of hawt. Something wrong with me, likely.
 
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 03:27 PM (r4wIV)

 


Not at all!  There is already too much competition for the hotties.  We need MORE men with your tastes in women, not less.  That way everyone wins.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:31 AM (xUM1Q)

291

You know what else isn't funny? Never getting blow jobs again.

I kid. I agree, chicks aren't generally that funny. Especially Judy Tenuta.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 26, 2012 11:31 AM (YOZSv)

292 Don't know if this adds anything but n my screenwriting class (I know, I know, in my defense I'm an computer animation major and it was an elective.) There where seven girls and only one tried writing any comedy, it wasn't the traditional men are stupid stand up schtick, it was more absurdest and witty with interesting characters, and it was pretty funny.

Posted by: Ed Wood vs Godzilla at July 26, 2012 11:32 AM (/w0Ry)

293 "The saddest thing in the world: A chubby girl with small boobs. " I dunno I think that's kind of hawt. Something wrong with me, likely. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 03:27 PM (r4wIV) -------------------------- Well hello, there...

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 26, 2012 11:32 AM (FIYvq)

294 Sadder than a fat chick with small boobs? A fat dude with huge boobs. I always want to hug those guys when I see them, they got the shaft genetically.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 26, 2012 11:34 AM (YOZSv)

295 Sponge, do you think Meryl Streep can be funny on a sitcom?

Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2012 03:15 PM (9Q7Nu)



Sorry for the long delay, but yes, actually.  She's done a LOT in her career and don't see why she couldn't pull that off.

Posted by: © Sponge at July 26, 2012 11:37 AM (UK9cE)

296

I always want to hug those guys when I see them, they got the shaft genetically.
 
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 26, 2012 03:34 PM (YOZSv)

 

 


Apparently they don't have it THAT bad - chicks wanna pity hug them!  Nobody pity hugs the Reactionary...  Aparently baldness and a pasty palor are not as "awwww" inspiring.

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:38 AM (xUM1Q)

297 I think it's funny that Sarah Silverman is into the whole bestiality thing.  Who the f*ck else would touch her?

Posted by: Fritz at July 26, 2012 11:39 AM (/ZZCn)

298

I like Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous: Redd at July 26, 2012 03:00 PM (JPTKx)

 

I love that show. It was hilarious and made me more confident that I am not the worst mother in the world.

Posted by: Madamemayhem at July 26, 2012 11:40 AM (iRgZG)

299 "I always want to hug those guys when I see them, they got the shaft genetically."
And a lot of food down their necks without much exercise.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:41 AM (r4wIV)

300 I always want to hug those guys when I see them, they got the shaft genetically. Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 26, 2012 03:34 PM (YOZSv) Apparently they don't have it THAT bad - chicks wanna pity hug them! Nobody pity hugs the Reactionary... Aparently baldness and a pasty palor are not as "awwww" inspiring. Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 03:38 PM (xUM1Q) ------------------- You get used to it. And if no one wants to pity hug you, get yourself a sitcom and you can pay a hot actress to do it instead.

Posted by: Kevin James, King of Queens at July 26, 2012 11:43 AM (FIYvq)

301 Yep.

Posted by: Jim Belushi at July 26, 2012 11:45 AM (FIYvq)

302 "And if no one wants to pity hug you, get yourself a sitcom and you can pay a hot actress to do it instead."
Yeah, or "Big Bang Theory." Its one of the dumbest tropes on sitcoms: the goofball guy gets the improbably hot wife or girlfriend. See that girl you'd never have a chance with, even with a stack of cash as high as her surgically enhanced boobs and a mazerati on the curb? On TV she lusts after fat or dorky losers.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 11:46 AM (r4wIV)

303 Ewww.

Posted by: Louis Anderson at July 26, 2012 11:47 AM (a5dvu)

304 Never worked for me, dammit!

Posted by: John Pinette at July 26, 2012 11:48 AM (r4wIV)

305 You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

Posted by: Tommy at July 26, 2012 11:48 AM (SWgCQ)

306 I could have sworn I read somewhere that Roseanne Barr had actually been diagnosed with schitzophrenia or something.

Posted by: Dave M at July 26, 2012 11:51 AM (+SyT7)

307

See that girl you'd never have a chance with, even with a stack of cash as high as her surgically enhanced boobs and a mazerati on the curb? On TV she lusts after fat or dorky losers.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 03:46 PM (r4wIV)

 


Hey - quit busting up my fantasy!

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by: Reactionary at July 26, 2012 11:52 AM (xUM1Q)

308 Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Guilds Radner, Jane Curtain. The gal from Dharma and Greg. Now drawing a blank. A lot of the old tome actors and actresses were damn funny when called for too. Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant come to mind. Back to work.

Posted by: teej at July 26, 2012 11:54 AM (zEeUf)

309 Y'know, somehow I don't think it's the "unfunny" women writing this crap about how the hot chick ends up with the loser. To be fair, though, I don't think Big Bang (for the most part) falls into that category...unless you count Wolowitz.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at July 26, 2012 11:56 AM (FIYvq)

310

No ones mentioned Mrs 'I hated my country until my husband, whose home country is Kenya, was nominated'.

 

I mean, look at dem arms ... and da-tass.  Every time I see that picture that she staged with her and the two other first ladies walking up those stairs.  Hilarous.

 

And the stand up routine where she gave Pres Urkel the girl's bike and goovy helmet.  Talent to fool her husband that way.  High comedy, just like how Lucille used to get her husband to talk with that accent every show.

 

Oh, and wearing dress clothes and high heels in that movie she did about that fake garden in the back yard.  ROFL

 

Now thats good stand-up comedy!!!

 

 

Posted by: Guy who thinks some wumyn are funny at July 26, 2012 12:00 PM (w5RwR)

311

I agree with Margarita DeVille and numerous others that women comedic actresses, as opposed to stand-up comediennes, are as funny as men.  Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Madeline Kahn, Gracie Allen, Carole Lombard, Mae West (yeah, I'm older than dirt, what about it?).  I do notice that no-one on my list is currently working (and only one is currently alive).  I don't know if this is because of my own age and limited cultural references, or if standards for comedic actresses have fallen in later years.  Wait, here's a stand-up who's not dead yet - Phyllis Diller!  She was funny as hell.  But, I'm dating myself again. 

Posted by: Crabby Old Bat at July 26, 2012 12:08 PM (ZVKoE)

312 I am outraged!

Posted by: Margaret Cho at July 26, 2012 12:12 PM (aFxlY)

313 Never laughed as hard at a female comedian as I have at a Jim Gaffigan, Sam Kinison, Eddie Izzard, etc.

I think one reason is that it's easier for guys to go blue. For women to go blue it seems a bit jarring, unless they're Lisa Lampanelli.

Also balls are funnier than just about anything, and it seems weird for women to joke about balls, ipso facto they lose the comedy war.

Posted by: Karusky at July 26, 2012 12:12 PM (dO4L7)

314 In retrospect, I think the success of 'Roseanne' the sitcom had more to do with Chuck Lorre than it did with Roseanne. What has she done since then that was memorable? Nothing comes to mind. But for Chuck Lorre it was just the first of many major successes. In terms of a brand he is the biggest thing going in sitcom land today.

If 'Two and a Half Men' get more than one season post-Sheen, it will be the triumph of Lorre over his performers.

Posted by: epobirs at July 26, 2012 12:12 PM (kcfmt)

315

Hate to admit it but Corolla's right.  And I pre-denounce myself to now state that it's because women tend to whine about the absurdities of life or be outraged at stupid situations, and men tend to be better at standing back, seeing the absurdity, and thinking it's funny.

Oh, and I'm a woman.  Funny as hell, too.

Posted by: Biblio Still Misses Breitbart at July 26, 2012 12:13 PM (7o8VY)

316

Funniest female I know..... my 6 yr old.

Lotsa noise from her room and she is yelling "DIE, DIE DIE".

Me: What are you doing?

Her: Oh I'm just killing evil shit mama.

Me: watch your language.

Her: what does that mean?

Me: Stop saying bad words.

Her: Kay.  I'm just beating up evil shit.

Me: No honey, shit is the bad word.

Her: But.... at school they told us killing was bad. So now shit is bad too?      How am I supposed to know all this?

Posted by: Madamemayhem at July 26, 2012 12:16 PM (iRgZG)

317 Has anybody here seen the web series "Burning Love"?  It's a parody of reality TV dating shows like "The Bachelor".  It was written by the real-life wife of the guy who played the bachelor.  I really wanted it to be funny, but it wasn't for me.  Is it because actual reality TV can't be parodied because it's already too ridiculous?  Was the writing not funny enough, or were the actresses not funny enough?

Posted by: Pete in TX at July 26, 2012 12:17 PM (rjf9y)

318 >> Mostly because men would rather date women who spend twelve hours at the hairdresser and just pick up a pie on the way home than one who can make a crust from scratch.

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Lemmenkainen at July 26, 2012 12:21 PM (ZWvOb)

319 #312

Actually, not that improbable. I've known a lot of Cal Tech (the obvious but never named workplace of most of the characters) types through fannish circles. The serious genius types pull down some really impressive women. Guys like Feynman could really work it. The ones who don't are the Sheldon sort who've repurposed the neurons that were supposed to provide a libido.

The bigger problem for me about that show is that scarcely any of the places and organizations those characters should be involved in are treated as if they don't exist. It's like the show is set in an alternate universe where scarcely any of SoCal geek culture exists.

Posted by: epobirs at July 26, 2012 12:22 PM (kcfmt)

320 LauraW is a very funny chick. Funnier than most guys I know.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 26, 2012 12:45 PM (pUqSw)

321

Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White, Joanna Kerns, Mackenzie Phillips, Goldie Hawn are a few that come to mind.

Not much slapstick, rowdy John Belushi Bluto Animal House shtick, but these are all ladies that made me laugh many times when I saw them on TV. 

 

Posted by: RM at July 26, 2012 12:47 PM (TRsME)

322 The funniest women are almost invariably lesbians--except Rita Rudner, of course.

Posted by: ahem at July 26, 2012 01:01 PM (7bdKn)

323 I'm late but, I have a very very short list of stand up comediennes who are actually funny and didn't just get pushed at us by that 80s affirmative action "women of the night" crap. Paula Poundstone Ellen degeneres. Uh, can't think of anyone else right now, though I'm sure there's at least one more. I'd put Joan rivers on the list but I've never actually seem her do stand up. That's it, I think. The reason women aren't good stand ups is that the key to a good stand up presence is authority, and very few women have or are comfortable with commanding authority of a whole stage and theatre.

Posted by: Elizabethe from elsewhere at July 26, 2012 01:41 PM (OTOnz)

324

Sabrina Matthews is funny; also, Lea Delaria (sp.)

Roseanne is a waste of flesh and bone.

 

Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 26, 2012 01:42 PM (7v5Ct)

325 And Ellen is, and Joan, of course.  Jane Austen's bitter wit makes me smile, but not exactly laugh.

Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 26, 2012 01:51 PM (7v5Ct)

326 This thread is so dead, but I must mention that Jean Harlow was funny as hell.

Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 26, 2012 01:52 PM (7v5Ct)

327 Men have to develop a sense of humor to attract a woman.  It's an evolution thing.  All women have to do is look pretty.  Women love a sense of humor so men are more inclined to hone this skill in pursuit of sex.

Posted by: EP at July 26, 2012 01:55 PM (T0FzQ)

328 What about evolution made women want a sense of humor?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 02:29 PM (r4wIV)

329 Speaking of comedy, Newsweek's going all digital.  DOSTranslation: "We can't afford to print this trash anymore".

Bonus extra fun reading the link on Instapundit from NPR discussing the horror that occurs when one hypenated-American attempts to marry another hyphenated-American.  And neither one of them can figure out what to do to trim the resultant quad-hyphenated-last-name.

Heh.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 26, 2012 02:39 PM (PMGbu)

330 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at July 26, 2012 03:37 PM (6o4Fb)

331 I saw a few minutes of Bridesmaids and it was totally unfunny,granted it was a very small sample.

Posted by: steevy at July 26, 2012 03:38 PM (6o4Fb)

332 Yep. This post just never gets any fresher, no matter how many times or who posts it.

Posted by: Klawnet at July 26, 2012 03:41 PM (AYfPj)

333 Maybe you're just too stupid not to understand female humor. Not that many funny women? Like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Betty White, decades upon decades of SNL cast members (Fey, Shannon, Wiig are just a few), Margaret Cho, Chelsea Handler...I can go on but many more names have been pointed out by commenters here. What a dumb post.

Posted by: msmulan at July 26, 2012 04:26 PM (vSWyU)

334 Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn were pretty good in their day.

Posted by: TxAnn56 at July 26, 2012 04:57 PM (Y/hkJ)

335 If you think Margaret Cho and Chelsea Handler are funny then you have incredibly shitty taste in comedy.

Posted by: buzzion at July 26, 2012 05:06 PM (GULKT)

336 We don't have to be funny -- we have teh boobehs!

Posted by: Mindy at July 26, 2012 05:07 PM (/x+JI)

337 Perhaps there are fewer funny women for the same reason that there are fewer retarded women and fewer brilliant women. Women cluster around the middle of the bell curve, with men there are more outliers. Not everyone is cut out for standup. Also, it probably has to do with men being bigger risk takers. Maybe it really does take balls to get up in front of strangers and try to make them laugh.

Posted by: Ronnie Schreiber at July 26, 2012 05:14 PM (+qnV+)

338 #341 Thaaaaaaank you. Bridesmaids may have been the most unfunny thing I ever sat through. It was an After-School Special bi-sected by a pooping-in-the-street scene. To be fair, I was kind of disappointed in The Hangover the first time I saw it, too. Built up too much. The second time was way better. Every time I watch Tyson sucker-punch Gaflinaflakis, it gets funnier.

Posted by: That'sRACIST at July 26, 2012 05:54 PM (UBLth)

339 >>Roseanne Barr...

Confusing live stock for chicks is inexcusable.

Posted by: sTevo at July 26, 2012 06:00 PM (LMi/0)

340 "Margaret Cho, Chelsea Handler...I can go on but many more names have been pointed out by commenters here. What a dumb post. "
Wow. Margaret Cho, you went there. Amazing.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 26, 2012 06:05 PM (r4wIV)

341 Maybe it's a factor of what the genders find funny, or how far they're willing to go. I think men are less hesitant to verge into "extreme" comedy or taboo subjects.

Posted by: R. Waher at July 26, 2012 08:24 PM (4FP+P)

342 Gracie Allen
Lucille Ball
Carol Burnett
Madeline Kahn
Gilda Radner
Terri Garr
Judy Tenuta....holy crap you're right!

In addition to being easy on the eyes I think Sophia Vergara is hilarious!

Posted by: demasque at July 27, 2012 02:00 AM (VusH8)

343 Glad somebody mentioned Rita Rudner.  Maybe it's just that I find her attractive, too; but there's something about the little-girl voice and those innocent wide eyes:  "I had to marry my husband.  He was the only one left.  I'd dated everybody!."

Comic actresses?  Let's set the Wayback Machine here, Sherman.  How about Jean Arthur?

And there's Joan Rivers:  "Elizabeth Taylor is a woman being kept alive by a machine.  A refrigerator!"

Phyllis Diller is still the champ.  She tells the story of the airplane flight from hell.  "My stewardess was so old, God bless her. . . .  You know how women get those little crow's feet around their eyes?  This broad had mastodon tracks."  And, when the passenger behind her accidentally sticks his fork into her hair during an episode of turbulence:  "And then the guy had the nerve to complain about the spaghetti with the black roots!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 27, 2012 05:58 AM (exvgC)

344 What did the one lawyer say to the other lawyer? "We are both lawyers."

Posted by: Anti-joke chick at July 27, 2012 05:59 AM (X8TTC)

345 Thinking a little more about comic actresses . . .

Kristen Ritter: Her exasperating character on "Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23" is funny.  So is Patricia Heaton of "The Middle."  And maybe not so much now, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the "Seinfeld" days.  I said at the time she even looked great while making faces -- not just anybody can manage that.

Oh, and Christina Applegate and Katey Sagal when they did "Married with Children."  Applegate can still be funny; I liked her amnesiac character in "Samantha Who?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 27, 2012 06:14 AM (exvgC)

346 Judy Tenuta is NOT funny. She's just brash. Rita Rudner, Ellen Degeneres, Phyllis Diller, they are the funny ladies. If you count comedic actresses as well as stand-up, no one can hold a candle to Lucille Ball.

Rosie O'Donnell used to be until she decided to say f*** you to half her audience and beg them not to listen to her anymore.



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