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"Women aren't funny."

  • Lucille Ball
  • Betty White
  • Mary Tyler Moore
  • Phyllis Diiler
  • Cloris Leachman
  • Bea Arthur
  • Valerie Harper
  • Gilda Radner
  • Laraine Newman
  • Jane Curtin
  • Candice Bergen
  • Lily Tomlin
  • Carol Burnett
  • Vicki Lawrence
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • Ellen Degeneres
  • Tracey Ullman
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Jane Lynch
  • Tina Fey
  • Amy Poehler
  • Mindy Kaling
  • Debra Messing
  • Roseanne Barr
  • Kristin Wiig
  • Sarah Silverman
  • Rebel Wilson
  • Aisha Tyler
  • Margaret Cho
  • Catherine Tate
  • Rosie O’Donnell
  • Kathy Griffin
  • Aubrey Plaza
  • Paula Poundstone
  • Kristen Schaal
  • Melissa McCarthy
  • Sarah Millican
  • Wanda Sykes
  • Alex Borstein
  • Nicole Sullivan
  • Molly Shannon
  • Amy Sedaris
  • Joan Rivers
  • Chelsea Handler
  • Maya Rudolph
  • Janeane Garofalo

But yeah, totally. Women are never funny.

Why Men Are MUCH, MUCH Funnier Than Women

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by Jonas Polsky

Scientists have known for centuries that comedy comes from “hormones and stuff” that only exist in a pair of testicles. If you don’t have any gonads, you’re outta luck. Remember that TV show “America’s Funniest Eunuch”? Yeah, me neither.

Women, by definition, can’t possess the comedy-birthing testes, and as a result, their “comedy” will always be a pathetic imitation that no one wants to laugh at. It’s hardly worth mentioning, but there are several other reasons why women simply can’t hack it in the comedy game.

Bathrooms - Men don’t have to sit down to use the bathroom like women. They’re in and out of the restroom much faster, so they can get back to writing. The average woman spends about eight years more of her life in the toilet than a man, and men use that extra time back at their desks, cranking out great jokes.

Fashion - For the most part, men wear pants. Women mostly wear skirts and dresses. Men can climb the “showbiz ladder” much faster in pants, because no one can peek up them, unlike skirts, which are essentially a cloth tube.

Nomenclature - Men have shorter names, which makes it easier to call them up for a job. Examples include: Tib, Hurf, and Juck. Women, on the other hand have names like: Madeline, Sacagawea, Dyslexicon, and Birth-Butt which people hate to say, and refuse to remember.

TIP: Disguise yourself as a man to get hired as a comedy writer, if that doesn’t work, consider sexual reassignment surgery.

The Right Stuff - Male genitalia is funny looking, and the world is filled with hilarious phallic objects. Hold up a carrot and say “Orange Penis” and you’ll get a laugh. Most people (women included) think vaginas are weird and gross.

Weird bleeding - Women have a gross habit of menstruating. There’s nothing funny about someone bleeding uncontrollably, so cut it out.

Pregnancy - You can’t sit down at a writer’s table if you have a ginormous swollen stomach. If you insist on inconveniencing us with your pregnancy, hide it with a baggy sweatshirt, or cinch your body down to a normal size with a tight-fitting girdle.

TIP: Stop being pretty. As a joke, Steve Martin put out an album where he wore a wig and makeup on the cover. (It only sold three copies.)

Relatability - Women just don’t “get” guy stuff. We like beers, sports, and hot rods. Women like unicorns, and dolls. Come on, jeez.

Rampant promiscuity - Sadly, most women are sluts. This makes them unemployable, because they stink, and they usually have smeared makeup on from the night before. (Funny to look at, but doesn’t translate to the page.)

Sorry to break it to you ladies, but your body’s configuration makes it impossible for you to write or perform quality comedy. Your chromosomes are screwed up, and no amount of hard work is going to fix them. But there’s still hope, maybe in the next lifetime, you’ll be born a man.

so men tend to bash female comedians by calling them dogs or ugly etc and focusing on their appearance rather than the content of their material, but female comedians have noted that they get more laughs when they purposely make themselves look less “hot” because when they’re traditionally feminine men don’t listen to them, so i’ve concluded that men just don’t fucking listen to women and the debate of whether or not women are funny has nothing to do with the caliber of female comedians whatsoever

“Women don't have to be funny. They've got beauty. If a man wasn't funny, he would never get laid.”

—Christopher Hitchens

“You know what? It's true, actually. Most women aren't funny. But that's because most PEOPLE aren't funny. Being funny is like any other artistic skill, but to wield it successfully requires outspokenness, unapologetic honesty, supreme self-assuredness, and an outright refusal to pander. And those aren't exactly the traits we foster in our little girls. (Instead, we go with mistrust of other women, an extreme longing for expensive garbage, and the idea that being pretty is more important than being smart. Oh, here's your toy, girls, it's a fake baby that poops fake poop into a fake diaper for you to fake clean up. Have fun "playing.") We don't jump to these conclusions when it comes to any other skill. Women aren't encouraged to be auto mechanics either, so most auto mechanics aren't women, but only the most misogynistic dumbass would suggest that it's because our tiny woman-brains are broom-shaped instead of wrench-shaped. The reason that people don't respond well to women's self-deprecating jokes is because they don't read as jokes. They read as uncomfortable confessions. Because our society trains women to hate themselves. Men are told from birth that their ideas are just as important as their bodies. Men are encouraged to be bold and loud—throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks over and over again—and that's exactly where great comedy comes from. Comedy clubs are almost always run by men, and they're safe spaces for men. I can't tell you how many times I've heard a male host introduce a female comic by saying, "And here's your obligatory girl comic for the night!" Any female comics who are bold enough show up have to sit through 87 shitty, "edgy" jokes about how they deserve to be raped and murdered for not liking video games enough. (A completely run-of-the-mill example I heard recently: "Last night I brought this girl home, but she was being really loud during sex, so I told her, 'Sssshhh, you don't want to turn this rape into a murder!'") It is a deeply uncomfortable environment—and I say that not as a shy, funny girl at her first open-mic, but as a woman who's already achieved a certain level of comedic credibility. And then the conclusion, when successful male comics outnumber successful female comics 10:1? Obviously it's because women just aren't funny. Not like my rape jokes! I'm a maverick!”

Hey, Men, I’m Funnier Than You - Jezebel

Bonnie McFarlane & Rich Vos Debuting "Women Aren't Funny"

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This Saturday afternoon at Carolines, Bonnie McFarlane & Rich Vos are set to screen their documentary “Women Aren’t Funny”:

With her husband (big act, Rich Vos) comedian Bonnie McFarlane talks with Lisa Lampanelli, Michael Ian Black, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, Joan Rivers, Artie Lange, Joy Behar, Adam Carolla and many others to find out if women are funny in what might be the most important film of our generation.

Tickets can be purchased here. Screening starts 1pm with a panel afterwards.

If you ever were interested in the things I get into unrelated to tumblr.

Check out the kickstarter page of the comedy podcast I produce called Women Aren’t Funny. We try and fill a venue with all of our fans once a month and invite super special guests to hang out with us on stage. It’s a real blast and if you don’t donate, you can at least watch the video of our first live show, because it’s amazing. 

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