A few lads recently watched a selection of films and concluded that females just can't do 'funny'. They reckon if girls did a road trip type film it would be boring and that as far as comedy goes - both film and stand-up, women just can't do it like the men.

Oh and the funniest female they know is Jo Brand but then they asked if she was a woman!

What do SF's film buffs think about this?

Men are funnier.

Why are men funnier and which films give you that opinion?

Which actresses/female comedy roles help you with that conclusion?

I was thinking more about friends, peers, relations & basing my opinion from experience & personal situations.
I didn't really consider films & stuff because professional funny people often have writers or teams of writers (anonymous) to provide their material.

Is that any help? :confused: I fear I'm guilty of answering your thread title, not the content. :(

I think men generally pull off funnier better, they can do funny in more contexts, women can struggle to pull off funny in the ways guys can...

but there are some good female comedians, and there some good female films that are funny... Bridget Jones, Legally Blonde... both funny films!

men are also funnier because no matter ur age, poo and willy will always be funny!

men will make asses of temselves in order to get a laugh, women wont....

women cannot remember jokes.....

men are dryer and more likely to act the joke.

Originally posted by xafier
I think men generally pull off funnier ,

you are definately right there but keep to the topic you dirty devil!!

In answer to the question I think women are - many women are 'funny' in my opinion. Talk to another woman at a party and see how 'funny' they get! :suspect:

sorry folks but women are definately funnier than men....

women can laugh at themselves and others....women are more relaxed....women can relate to more situations than men...women are generally less competitive....women don''t have to swear/be crude to raise a laugh!!

Catherine Tate is gonna be huge...watch this space that's what I'd say!!!

Don't get me wrong I love Little Britain etc

But any stand up male will tell you he gets his material from the women in his life....look at Peter Kay...tells it like his Mam and Nan & gets the glory!!

I think that there are more mainstream male comedy acts than femaly, but that doesn't mean the girls aren't funny. My own favourite is Victoria Wood. I also like Jo Brand, Ellen De Generes, Pam Ann (Caroline Reid), etc!

K x

ermmmm - depends which bit of them you are looking at!

Thelma and Louise wasn't a terrible road trip movie, it was pretty great.
Some men are funny, some women are too. I'm not a fan of toilet humour at all, I find it juvenile so it depends on the individual for me.

It also depends on what you mean by funny ... some popular comedians are dire - harry hill to name but one .... raconteurs IMO are funnier than jokesmiths... there are some very amusing people of both sexes being funny for a living.

IRL, men seem to like standard jokes and if they tell one, they usually tell several :help: and they tend to like slapstick and simple humour. Women are often witty rather than funny and prefer to tell/listen to amusing stories.

Sometimes sense of humour seems gender based and so we find our own sex funnier because of that.

Men are funnier

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Men are funnier

Come on ANGELUS! At least join in the debate!

K x

Sorry Kristian.

I just think its men who have a sicker sense of humour all round and my fave comedians/stand ups are Dave Allen and Bill Hicks.

I cant really name a decent female comedian that does it for me.
I used to like Victoria Wood but I've gone off her now.

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Sorry Kristian.

I just think its men who have a sicker sense of humour all round and my fave comedians/stand ups are Dave Allen and Bill Hicks.

I cant really name a decent female comedian that does it for me.
I used to like Victoria Wood but I've gone off her now.

She just opened up the Acorn Antiques musical! How could you?!? :D

K x

Im so sorry!
Its that bloody Julie Walters woman that does it..

And dont get me started on Dawn French.
I could open a whole case of whoopass on that woman!

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Im so sorry!
Its that bloody Julie Walters woman that does it..

And dont get me started on Dawn French.
I could open a whole case of whoopass on that woman!

You don't need to be sorry ANGELUS! The forum is all about people having different opinions and views.

What was that you said about Dawn French? Grrrrr :rant:



:D

K x

Dawn French...

No I cant because I would really be horrible about the woman.
I just detest her- I cant put my finger on it why I dont like the woman so much... but her and Lenny Henry.

No, no, no

Always acting the happy couple!

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Dawn French...

No I cant because I would really be horrible about the woman.
I just detest her- I cant put my finger on it why I dont like the woman so much... but her and Lenny Henry.

No, no, no

Always acting the happy couple!

Not so happy though; he had an affair a couple of years ago didn't he?

K x

What about Catherine Tate.........Caroline Aherne.......Smack the Pony girls etc etc!!

Originally posted by shieshuk
What about Catherine Tate.........Caroline Aherne.......Smack the Pony girls etc etc!!

Yeay to all! Apart from Catherine Tate? Who the knob is she?

K x

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Men are funnier

I concede the point, Angelus.

Most of us certainly get a laugh out of the men we know.

:D

smack the pony?!

now u are joking! that was terrible. women can rarely do funny!

I must admit I do find male comics funnier - but in everyday conversations women are funnier.

Womens humour is more sarcastic and subtle it is spontaneus and clever.

Men just laugh at farts!!!:gag: :

dawny .... that was just what I was trying to say in my first post - but you put it better and much more succinctly that I :)

Does it not depend on what you find funny?

Angelus, you might like Sarah Silverman.

Men are funnier, they can make jokes about anything, women mainly tell jokes about men and how stupid they are, which gets a bit boring after a while.

Hello men and ladies - There are/have been many more successful male comedians than women, but is this simply because men were more er....'dominant' in society (outwardly at least) for so long? That said, in today's world, you'd think more women would be successful in comedy now that sisters are kicking ass/doing it for themselves/running jobs and home etc while men mope around in a state of arrested development. Victoria Wood is still very funny - in interviews - and many women can make you laugh (Jenny Eclair, Jennifer Saunders). And let's not forget the great Caroline Aherne. Here's a thought though - perhaps men find it difficult to relate to the 'funnyness' of a women unless she is relatively unattractive. It could well be that Sally Phillips and Jo Brand are equally talented/hilarious, but I admit my first impulse when encountering SP on TV or radio is to go weak at the knees, whereas my first impluse on encountering JB (Robert Smith on an eostrogen overdose), is to larf....

Is this too long......nurse?

I agree that men are funnier. the only female comedian i think is excellent, is Jessica Stevenson.

I don't think its about pulling it off better. I think its the subject areas chosen. Women seem to focus more around the relationship humour, which can only be found funny by one sex at a time.

I hate to make such an opinion on the sexes, but i can list many male comedians, but only one or two female.

P.S. I am always looking out for new female comedians, i want to be corrected.

thats the kind of woman i like!

she wants to be corrected!

now if only she wanted to be told what to do id be on easy street!

Much as I hate to say it, male comedians are funnier, in the traditional stand-up situation. All the great stand-ups I can think of are men - Bill Hicks, Ben Elton (when he was funny), Woody Allen, Dave Allen, Jack Dee, etc.

Perhaps it's that a lot of humour is ultimately quite cruel, and men are better at standing up in public tearing people apart (Metaphorically speaking, of course! ;) ).

Perhaps also women in general lack the enormous self-confidence required to risk the public humiliation if their 'jokes' fall flat? Men have traditionally been encouraged to take this level of risk, while the opposite is true of women.

As RubyDazzler says, women tend to prefer wit to jokes anyway, humour that naturally arises from everyday situations. My favourite comedies, like Frasier and Cheers, depend on clever wordplay and humour poked at the foibles of the personalities concerned, rather than relying on slapstick. (Although you can't beat the occasional bit of slapstick! :o sorry!)

I think men and women can WRITE witty humour like the above sitcoms equally well - Jennifer Saunders "Ab Fab" was brilliantly written - and I look forward to hearing of more female comedy writers. Stand-up seems to be a different matter, sadly.

StarSparkle

Originally posted by tiffy
A few lads recently watched a selection of films and concluded that females just can't do 'funny'. They reckon if girls did a road trip type film it would be boring and that as far as comedy goes - both film and stand-up, women just can't do it like the men.

Oh and the funniest female they know is Jo Brand but then they asked if she was a woman!

What do SF's film buffs think about this?

Julie Walters - fabulously funny on film.
Barbra Streisand - has made some very funny films.
Stand-up comics - the one and only Victoria Wood.

But really, aren't the funniest women, both on film and stand-up, actually men in drag? Like Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie"? And Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon have stood the test of time in "Some Like It Hot". And try and beat Paul O'Grady as Lily Savage, and Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage! Superb!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by shieshuk
[B]sorry folks but women are definately funnier than men....

women can laugh at themselves and...."

:suspect:

really, when?