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Sarah Silverman is very funny!

Well, perhaps Mr. Hitchens based his attitude on women and humor based on The Broadsheet. Every single day there are plenty of examples of women who have no sense of humor at all.

Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, and Laura Ingraham can bring down the funniness of the entire gender.

Isn't that cute? Day after day Echidne literally cuts and pastes Broadsheet into her blog to fill bandwidth, and once in awhile her galpals return the favor with a free plug. And once again some humorless man writes a stupid column about why women aren't funny and women take it so seriously as to prove the jerk's point.

I dunno, maybe you all should change your batteries or something. Or learn to tell a joke.

It's often dudes who are not funny, yet desperately wish to be, who say women aren't funny. They find humor in anybody, particularly a woman, profoundly threatening. This is also partially a Hollywood creation: I suspect there's not too, too many guys in "real life" who would say with a straight face that women just aren't funny. Are funny women underrepresented in Hollywood? Absolutely. Is it because they don't exist? Absolutely not.

because they feel it will undermine the chances of their many (completely justified and never distorted or exaggerated) complints about how they are treated taken as the absolute and total truth and without some kind of self mockery, at least implied, it's hard to make funny work.

Or just a Jewish lesbian?

Which one was Lucille Ball? And what's that weird association between making babies and not making jokes? Hell, surviving modern motherhood demands a full-spectrum sense of humor. Ya start with the poo jokes (you're still hoping to work up to potty jokes), then the jokes-in-lieu-of-sex-and-sleep jokes, and when you're wide awake the meaning-of-life, what-happened-to-my-philosophy-major jokes.

Oh, but wait, we all know Hitchens never listens to anyone, so it sounds more like women haven't been laughing at his jokes lately. That darn war!

..as a woman who laughs at his jokes. If men like this wanted women to be anything more than a mirror reflecting their status, perhaps they'd have a greater appreciation for actual humor when they encounter it. However, most men like this are content for other people to find his woman attractive and 'sweet', whatever that is, and not gut-bustingly hilarious.

Obviously, women don't laugh at Hitchens' jokes. Erego, they aren't funny.

Sounds like Hitechens finds women to be unfunny in the same way he finds blacks to be unleaders. Look at the ratio of male to female comedian! Look at the ratio of black athletes to black coaches! Amazing how such simplistic drivel can actually make it into a major publication. And the comments about women being focused mostly on babies - I guess he concludes that because look how many women have babies, after all. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that we're the ones who carry the equipment and so have to have them, even if it's mostly the hubby that is the one dreaming of mini-mes.

But stirring up feminists is like poking a caged bear with a stick - it's easy, there's a lot of noise and furor and todo, but in the end the bear remains safely in its cage while the stick-wielder goes merrily on his way, looking for something else to poke. In other words, the VF editors gave Hitchen a podium not because they agree wit him or even because its a good or well-written article, but because its sure to provoke a lot of furor, and since no publicity is bad publicity, the question becomes not 'why' but 'why not'.

I don't think women are inherenlty lacking in humor. They aren't rewarded for being funny, though, so it's reasonable that they wouldn't go out of their way to cultivate a quality that will go largely unappreciated/unrewarded/unrecognized.

I hope Salon sics Heather Havrilesky on the gauntlet Hitchens has so limply thrown down. Not that HItchens would be swayed by the reality of a woman who makes her living being funny. Still it's worth a try - an H-bomb accompanied by a nice author photo showing Heather in her pregnant glory. Maybe Hitechen's head would explode. That would be funny! See, we *do* have a sense of humor!

I always get a kick out of his drunken incoherent rants.

I enjoyed the Hitchen's article - it was funny. "Broadsheet" has no sense of humor... interesting...

my husband and I have in common is our sense of humor. Neither of us, for example, thinks fart jokes (or plain old farts, for that matter) are the funniest! thing! ever! (Maybe we don't drink enough?) Anyway, we have sat up many an evening together reading The Funny Times and laughing until we cried, fearing we would wake up our kids. So I guess I don't really give a damn if other people think I'm funny. I'm not a standup comedian, but my husband and I laugh together every day - at each other's jokes and other people's. Maybe Hitchens hasn't read any Jane Austen. Or maybe he's just too dumb to understand why it's funny. In any case, he's definitely missing out. And thanks for the link back to that Onion piece. DAMN, those people are funny. Did you notice, Chris, that some of them are FEMALE?

...is the way Hitchens supported the invasion of Iraq and now that he realizes how dead wrong he was he is writing about comics. Looking forward to a breakthrough Hitchens piece on puppetry.

He is quite a funny man indeed.

Seriously - has anyone ever caught this man being funny (intentionally), or showing any sign at all of having a sense of humor?

"Whereas women, bless their tender hearts, would prefer that life be fair, and even sweet, rather than the sordid mess it actually is."

"For women, reproduction is, if not the only thing, certainly the main thing. Apart from giving them a very different attitude to filth and embarrassment, it also imbues them with the kind of seriousness and solemnity at which men can only goggle."

"In other words, for women the question of funniness is essentially a secondary one. They are innately aware of a higher calling that is no laughing matter."

"And because fear is the mother of superstition, and because they are partly ruled in any case by the moon and the tides, women also fall more heavily for dreams, for supposedly significant dates like birthdays and anniversaries, for romantic love, crystals and stones, lockets and relics, and other things that men know are fit mainly for mockery and limericks."

Jesus Christ, what goddamn planet does this guy dwell on? Hitchens is probably one of those guys who refuses to accept that women fart, much less that they enjoy smelling them and laughing about them. I have no doubt that he renders humorless every woman in his midst - perhaps, my friend, women just aren't funny around *you*.

Also, bonus points for calling Oscar Wilde "a queer." Where does Vanity Fair find these people?