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This clip is from QI Series G, Episode 7, 'Girls and Boys' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Ronni Ancona, Jack Dee and Sandi Toksvig.
Everyone’s talking about Jack Dee’s one-liners but not Alan’s “people are always laughing at mine”
Because they are too busy laughing at his.
I love Alan, but Jack’s joke was better.
Alan was hitting a joke that Sandi had set up. Likewise, Jack hit one that Ronni inadvertently set up.
Kind of an easy one to be honest
@MICHAEL DUKES Of course jack’s was better, but alan’s was so damn quick it’s crazy
Sandi, after a decade of doing this show alone:
I am the captain now
And she never had the courtesy of inviting Jack Dee.
@@TheZapan99 she doesn't invite the guests
@@someonefromsomewhere1009 Like they don't take her advice in consideration, the lezzies have been through the roof in the latest series.
Mike Nunyabizness wht the fuck
TheZapan99 lezzies?
'the panel would laugh more and the audience would laugh less' so the View
ive never heard anyone laugh in the view, wtf are you talking about
@@El6Magico6Arlequin6 That's the point. The View are all women, so no one laughs at all.
@Human Resources you are right, it isn't a comedy. the view is a commercial. half the show is always trying to sell something, a book or cosmetics. it has gotten so bad that they even have a segment that is pretty much just the home shopping network in each episode.
Joy and Whoopi were comediennes before they took up feminism prior to The View.
Genuine laugh out loud moment courtesy of Jack Dee....
Once you get Alan started, he can go on quite a tear.
@@mbp818 can cause quite a tear indeed
The question isn't whether you keep going on and on - but whether you know when to stop. Alan has no problem figuring out when the gag's started getting diminishing returns.
One word: hilly
and David Mitchell 😂
I do get a bit tired of Alan's puerile anal "jokes". It's very rarely that they are actually funny.
The gents panel spoke for 6 seconds of this video and got by far the most laughs
The punctuated zinger usually gets the most laughs though.
Very true, but QI isn’t just about the laughs either.
@@AeolianMusica good one
The professional comics got more laughs than the none professional comics........
mind blown
Yes but the lady’s bits were far cleverer and I enjoyed them more
Didn't Sandi say she's not a comedian and hates when people call her a comedian because she thinks of herself as a writer and broadcaster?
And yet she's one one the funniest out there.
Funny or not, she's certainly very entertaining.
Well, one can be a funny person and not be a comedian.
shes an honorary comedian then. bc shes just as funny as she is smart. and shes fucking smart
*Comedienne*
It's sort of funny how this clip almost entirely comprises of the women talking but the two funniest lines come from Jack and Alan lol
To be fair, Sandi is really funny. But as for the other lady, I remember this episode, and she fell pretty flat with her jokes.
Alan's line was well setup by Sandi tho.
Except Jack’s line isn’t funny.
@@Koreviking Well, it was.
@@MisterBuffers You are of course perfectly entitled to be wrong.
This is one of the best lines in all of QI. i still laugh hysterically.
"is it because once you get them started, they don't shut up"...
I spent many an afternoon watching QI re-runs and I have to say that that one line From Jack Dee is my favourite of all
Rich Hall’s response to a cat found in a photocopier is the best one-liner in QI history........ “Copy-Cat”
that was SAVAGE XD
But... isn't that what you want out of a comedian? They talk and you listen and laugh? You wouldn't like a comedian who filled her act with awkward pauses to let the audience get in a few words.
Jack Dee’s two finest moments are this and the Gabby/Manhole quip on Would I Lie to You
Yes!
1:31 and 3:12. Best jokes. The shortest ones. The best delivered ones. The man has impeccable timing for quips.
Syed Abdul Rahman : Totally agree, he totally proved the point.
Men learn they have great need to be humorous. It's a good way to be liked. It's a good defuser of tense competitive moments with other men. It's charming to women. Women don't need to be funny to charm men. Humor may not help much among catty women.
Hate to say it, but as a (bi) woman, I am very attracted to men who can make me laugh. Especially if they can make me laugh so much that I laugh uncontrollably and can’t stop for several minutes. I am also attracted to women who laugh, but I don’t laugh as much, and I laugh for different reasons.
It’s incredibly odd, and I don’t even care about much else about my partner, other then- can they make me laugh (and can I make them laugh?)
If they can make me laugh my attraction to them goes up by about 40%.
It’s incredibly odd, and I think it is to do with mating and sex, evolved.
People with low self-esteem feel the need to please everyone, that's why we try to make people laugh all the time. Women as well as men
It may surprise you that not everything a woman does is done for the benefit of men.
@@Koreviking I don't know why you say that as a comment, here. But, OK.
Yeah that's true. I went to a boys school and the original reason I learned to be funny was so that I could be more popular. Second reason was that I realised women (girls at the time) like to be around me more if I'm funny. When I think about the most popular girls at the girls' school, the best looking ones just made friends with each other and became the "popular" group or if social skills helped they were more subtle ones, the funny girls (often even if they were attractive) were inbetweeners.
The best ever...ever..... Jack! And he knew it.......he tried hard to keep his smile in tow!
Jack nailed it hahaha
Joyce Grenfell was a pioneer of female British comediennes. Brilliant too.
That one liner😃.
What a interesting scenario created here. The women can’t argue that they’re more funny without sort of proving themselves wrong as the men interject humours remarks and leave them debating (not that that’s what they were arguing however). I really respect Sandi and think she’s hilarious, she doesn’t make jokes solely about her gender and even when faced with a topic that could offend other females she takes it at face value without a feminist lecturer. Sandi even says that men are more likely to make more of a prat of themselves which could sound insulting but through the context we know she is calling men funny. The men don’t argue that they are funnier either, instead they just make jokes, proving that they are. I think that men and women can be and often are as funny as each other and just like the men Sandi hasn’t got anything to prove and just is unapologetically funny.
Absolutely agree with this. Sandi is incredibly funny - and I really do think it sets her apart from a lot of comediennes who get it wrong all too often by acting as if they have something to prove. Man or woman, if you don't take yourself too seriously, I'll probably like you!
The ironic thing is that Sandi is probably the exception to the rule. She is probably one of the few genuinely funny women.
Random Ashe exactly I totally agree
Exactly, she is funny because she doesn't take her self seriously. She is incredibly smart, but she doesn't set out to prove it.
She is a great host and a guest as well.
Completely agree and that's what makes her brilliant
Sandi: "Women are just not funny"
Ronni: *Goes on to prove the point*
Puddleglum She ought to be rounded up and put in a pen outside Harridge
@@romanmarshall602 *Harwich
She was trying so hard to be funny and it was so annoying... Surely she would know the harder you try to be funny then the less funny you'll be.
@@Terrezio Strange. Many comedians interviewed talk about how hard it is and how much time they spend working on jokes and shaping their routines. I saw Robin Williams at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles years ago, working new material. Very interesting to see him recognize immediately when a bit was not working and making mental notes on the audience reaction. Different energy than when a comedian hits the stage with solid material.
brachiator1 I meant like IN the moment. If you’re trying to be funny with something off the cuff and not material you’ve written and tested in clubs and places like that obviously you’re gonna fall flat on your face.
Would be interresting to write down what they say and get people to read that and see how much they laugh, to see if it's WHAT they say or WHO says it, or a combination of both.
That would certainly be an accurate study. I wonder if the study referenced in the bit looked at social settings or put it in a lab environment with several groups. One written. Two spoken. One performed by each gender. Then you could at least draw conclusions controlling for the variable of the joke
Delivery and punctuation is important. You don't get a very good overall picture like that.
@@KaNoMikoProductions No but that's exactly the point. Reading the lines without an attached gender determines whether the things which the men say are inherently funnier than the women or whether they just have better delivery i.e. are they simply better comedians?
@@matthewchampion8214 False. It would be impossible to determine whether the difference in laughter is because of built-in social biased related to gender or a genuine better delivery from men.
@@arandombard1197 Granted that would be the case if there was no difference in the reactions, yes.
However if the anonymous lines from male comedians produced more laughter than those from females, we could at least determine that men are "wittier" for the most part.
Best joke in QI history
You can tell when Sandi has just made a joke by when she starts blinking a lot.
2:26 Fry's warning
Mr Fry on Bill Bailey "Clearly a woman"
Gold. Just gold.
They probably should revisit this piece of research with a greater level of scrutiny.
Wouldn't be allowed to.
Doubt you'd be able to do this kind of research anymore I'm afraid
That other woman's "jokes" just proved Sandi's point I think.
I thought it was funny
Maybe it stems from the way lads are at school, always trying to take the piss out of their mates, whereas the girls never seemed to do it ?
Not to over-generalise, but women can't take the piss out of each other, because it inevitably turns bitchy and vicious. The same way boys can play-fight without it turning into a real fight, and girls can't. Men and women, by and large, have different emotional responses to those kinds of stimuli.
MassExtinctionEvent I agree. Whenever the girls started going at each other it went from zero to cat fight real quick.
Female here and we do take the piss out of each other. Unless that may be an Aussie thing? But my mates and I do it all the time. I even do it will mates that are blokes. If you can't laugh at yourself what is the point.
@@Summy27 prison culture is a bit different though.
Soridan I wish I could give that more than one like 😂
"Put them in the kitchen and make them design dresses" - why would you have them design dresses in the kitchen?!?
Because the chain doesn't allow for them to reach the design studio.. Duh!
@@Totto87 That is a cruel and sexist statement...and very funny.
Because cooking and sewing are two things feminists are incapable of, and treat like dark magic.
Because you go where it'll be used for inspiration? Lol
so they dont block the tv
Lucille Ball describer herself a comedy actor and rejected being called a comedian. Quotes "I never thought i was funny. I don't think funny" & "I'm not funny. What I am is brave".
Ironically ronni has proven Sandi’s point in this clip
What about Mabel Norman? She was a great comic and she taught Chaplin to direct.
I would wager the majority of men have at a point purchased a joke book or a book of trivial funny points and left it in a bathroom... In comparison to women doing the same.
Also Ronni here immediately proved why qi shouldn't have her on... But get more people like Sarah Millican or Tig Notaro and that audience will roar
Diane Morgan is effing hilarious.
1:32 thats 100% correct
2:07 what study, i can say that by my knowledge, women are not funny but they laugh more
3:26 its very true
They won't shut up! Buhawhaw!!
Humour is linked to intelligence. It's an evolutionary trait hard-wired into men to "show off" their intelligence/humour to women in order to procreate . I read that once somewhere. I'm not sure if it's true, but it sort of makes sense, no?
From an evolutionary standpoint, I think it makes sense. Men have a reason to want to be funny, because it makes them look more attractive to potential mates. I don't think women have had that same incentive.
Well, you're wrong. Humor is essential for human bonding and relationship building. Obviously women have to build relationships with other women! I dare say that it's probably the case where women living in more primitive societies exhibit more humour than those living in modern societies, because modern living is more insular- you don't need to bond with your "tribe" to survive.
Yeah, but you all are most often at your fall-down funniest when you're desperately trying not to be. That kind of kills your theory.
@@jcortese3300 Your premise is incorrect.
@Blackbriar95 think that's a pretty big stretch.
Is that why I only watching the old eps?
The comment about modern female comedy about being a woman can be seen regularly today. A lot of female comedy regularly uses sex as the topic, where as men, the topics are more general.
I guess Sandi got the last laugh
Women find men who can make women laugh attractive. It doesn't work like this the other way.
Thank you Ronni for proving the point.
Is that how you judge a whole section of people? off one person within a minute?
People called Daniel be dumb as fu*k.
@@demark8262 We just watched a 4 minute video of them describing specifically just that and how the data absoloutly verifies it. Women are categorically less funny than men. Get over it. Move on...
@@Postghost Are you that dumb as to think that was the point of the QI video. its was linked to many things, expectations and perceptions the fact women are attracted to men who make them laugh so they tend to laugh more at men and less at women ----- its was men and women telling the same jokes it was a scientific test (a controlled test) not a hot pops survey
"Who Laughs More?" not who's funnier
(read the article or listen to what they are saying ffs)
it’s got nothing to do with whether men are "funnier" or not
All postghosts be thick as fk too
@@demark8262 Did you even watch the video? They talked about 10% about how women laugh more and 90% about how men, generally, make funnier comedians.
@@Postghost "90% was about how men, generally, make funnier comedians" Haha ! Did you listen to any of it ? There was one sentence about men being more willing to make fools of themselves "90%"
Oh Jack Dee.
And now, with Sandi at the helm, there is a clear attention paid to the inclusion of more female comedians in the panel.
Also, I remember what Emma Thompson said, that men and women humour is like their orgasm. Men typically go in a crescendo and get out with a bang (the punchline), while women are more consistently funny but tend to make it in a more situational way. Theory which she brilliantly demonstrates, by the way.
Excellent use of the word 'typically'
I was just about to call this a generalization before my eyes jumped back to that word. Fair enough. Still seems heavy-handed to me but there is at least some thought behind the idea........
But I'm dead inside and decidedly asexual......... By that theory shouldn't I have forgotten how to tell a joke by now....? Or be too paralyzed by depression and a distaste for the audience and their compliance in the shifting of the [comedic] biome to tell the jokes I have.? Or else every time I start trying to tell one, I just shout the punchline out four seconds into the incomplete joke....?
.....pretty sure I can still tell a joke.........:
Knock kn-MARY CHRISTMAS
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..............you win again, Amber................
Can I call you Amber.?
@@slipknot95maggot Dear Maggot (or should I call you Slipknot?),
Thank you for your kind words. I for one am the first to acknowledge how worse I make it sound than Emma Thompson. Therefore, here's the link to the infamous interview, which will allow you to judge her on her own Oscar worthy words. czcams.com/video/PkX9-z4aaU8/video.html
I have to say, I am deeply sorry to hear about your asexuality (although, do you boo boo, I don't care, it just seems negative to you) and internal death, but dare I say, one does not always have control on the way people laugh at/with them. This may be a balm to your heart (although probably not), to know that you will always be funny to someone, usually because of your failure to be funny the way you want. It's called cringe, and, as I'm sure you've experienced before, it's a cruel mistress. In other words, you might not be able to tell a joke anymore, but now you are the joke. Or maybe the butt of the joke.
Anyways, I hope I lightened your burden, if not, well it probably is my fault, I just wrote the most utter garbage, and therefore, feel free to trol-MARY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!
Yours dearly,
Ambergris
P. S. : you can call me Amber, or gris, or both, or even grisAmber. The Internet is of freedom.
@@ambergris5705 Jesus jack dee was spot on, you really can't stop.
@@Kirealta XD
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If you knew...
@@ambergris5705 A brilliant parallel, kudos.
HOW have you not uploaded this round yet?
it is probably about 15 years old
they just did
It's obvious. The 2 guys on the left said like 2-3 sentences and everyone laughed, because it was genuinely funny and the girls said 20 sentences and it wasn't very good.
Yup
I laugh equally at both men and women but Sarah Millican really does make me laugh out loud
She is a treasure of comedy. Could watch her stuff all day and never stop enjoying it.
oh dear
That's because Sarah is the funniest female comedian, even funny than Eddie Izard.
Most women prefer men who make them laugh. Funny men thus have a clear dating advantage. Men look for different attributes in women.
@Human Resources
>Women who sit quietly and don't make any comments or voice any kind of opinion
So if a woman isn't funny, that means she sits quietly, without making any comments or voicing any kind of opinion. Or let me guess, you're going to backtrack on that false equivalence.
@Human Resources
>Natural wit comes out in casual conversation
No shit, Sherlock.
>But now women are more open and thus things like humour, and good conversational skills (intelligence, wit, cultural knowledge) are things that men have come to value in women.
Citation needed.
>When the reality is much more complex, and relies much on culture then biology.
Funny how the more equal and free societies get, the larger the disparity between male and female interests grow.
>These people who claim that women are biologically less funny seem to forget the day to day interactions they have, how much women may actually make them laugh.
You do realize you're poisoning the well, right?
>Makes no sense to me.
You're right, your strawman makes no sense.
@Human Resources
>Do you have a point
No. I did not have _a_ point. By my count, my last comment contained 5 points. Every single reply past the first one were obvious points on their own. The first one was a bit more subtle, sure, but try tackling the others, first.
There is some research to suggest that attractive people are funnier than average (but not unattractive) looking people.
I find Ronni to be funny.
I think this shows the difference between male and female comedians. Women like to come up with an elaborate funny story, whilst the men like one-liner jokes. The one-liners get laughs quicker and you can use more of them in your act.
Unless you love a story, the more elaborate the better to lead you down the garden path and leave you there laughing
They mentioned a good reason why in the clip :
Men will make jokes about things that everyone can relate to. Like societal or situational events.
Women will make jokes about being a woman. And how "hard it is, am I right?"
The clip actually proves it. The men made jokes about : body insecurity, women never shutting up, and the "good old times". Things *everyone* can relate to.
While the women made jokes about... Women comedians not being common place (and not being "allowed to succeed"), their cycles syncing up, and "life is hard for us comedians because we are always tied to a train track, am I right?".
@@fnors2 I certainly don't relate to women never shutting up - getting a word in more like.
@@fnors2 Shappi Khorsandi and Zahra Noorbakhsh make jokes about being in a Muslim controlled environment, however I grant you their experiences as women are darker, which naturally makes them funnier.
My favourite is Sarah Mullican, for the very reasons given, like all women she's had more to cope with than men (and hasn't even had children). It must be limiting as a man to have only lived a half-life and to be denied the rich vein of humour of so very much more varied life experiences.
How incredibly generalized of you
2:13 looks rather like Kate McKinnon in the back there.
Women don't ever need to make men laugh to get laid...
Interesting that the referece of a woman tied to a railway in the movies years after would be asked on QI as a false cliche
knit me a cake
Men have to be humorous as a way of being socially liked and attracting females. We have to put on a show.
Sometimes but not always. The less good you look, the funnier you have to be (as a general rule).
I hate Jack Dee, but his line was timed to perfection! 😂😂😂
As a society women have been in the shadows, comedy is about relating to others. Women now, and for the past 20 years, are talking about female bodily functions, sex or toilet, or whatever. That makes a whole bunch of people uncomfortable, it makes the jokes sound a little old because we've heard them about men, but it's great to relate. So, yes, your audience were laughing less because they don't know what to do with women breaking the fold! It's only very recent that we've been allowed to say these things on film, where men have had eons...
Jack Dee is a god. Lol
@Kevin L, wow that was such a desperate stretch at an insult that I feel bad for your great grandchildren. Lol
@Kevin L, oh snap. You're an insecure feminist beta male. My bad. Keep bleeding for me, this will be hilarious. Lol
Beaurocrats
It’s interesting what Stephen or rather the research says about more females on the panel would mean less laughter from the audience. The last few years have shown that to be sadly true. Sandi is great and there’s some excellent female comics on but a lot are not very good at all.
Jack Dee is my hero lol.
Why? He's an unfunny prat most of the time!
@@MrWombatty I can relate to his 'miserable' style of humour.
Another thing i always find is maybe from the stigma of females not being funny, they try harder to be funny and the one thing that can kill a joke before its made is a try hard comedian.
Even men when they are fresh, the air of the try hard just kills their performance, where as you see the pro's and their shows just feel natural like they're just having a chat and a laugh at the world.
There's also the horrible trend nowadays that you can't be too critical of a woman's work if you aren't a woman yourself.
If you tell a woman her jokes sucks, you are often vilified and people will tell her "he's just a hater, don't listen to him. You are super funny!". Even if the critique was legitimate.
If you tell a man his jokes sucks, no one will shield him from the criticism. That man can then learn what works and improve himself. Making him better at his craft.
This theory might actually explain the all-female American show called "The View".
They tell a joke, there is a moment of silence, then one of the panel will laugh...
then the audience laughs.. i always thought that was uncomfy and strange.
i think Sandy is hilarious and witty, and just her facial expressions can make me start to giggle!
But to be fair, in all of the QI episodes i have seen, there have really only been 5 people who have never made me laugh.
and 3 of them are men.
F'n Rory McGrath must be one of your 5, isn't he?
Well with probably 2/3 or 3/4 of the panelists being men, that suggests that a much smaller percentage of the males have failed you than the females.
Either way, name names! I'll start with Brian Blessed, everyone loves him but in actuality all his stories are lame and he falls back on sexual comments for a cheap laugh when he's in too deep.
Bit of a necro but i feel like in general the UK's female comediens are alot funnier then their US counterparts.
What would be the reason for that?
I'm from Belgium so closer proximity, closer culture relevance?
US tv-shows dominate the media tho, so its not like the US has no cultural influence.
I feel like the comedy in the UK is generaly smarter then in the US, and US comedy is mostly feminist cliches.
There are two great One liners and both of em are from Men!😂
so Hitchens was correct;-)
it is true though. that long diatribe the women were getting in too was just not that funny. felt more like they were just humoring them. perfectly timed quip by jack however
They weren’t trying to be funny at that moment, what they were saying was important
Sorry you can’t appreciate anything other than an easy laugh
@@WiggyWamWam "important"
Fucking lol.
I feel like this is more like "Why are there more Female Midwives". People just try at professions and choose what they want to do. It's harder to be a female comedian you just need to fit your niche.
I don't think Stephen was suggesting that QI has a lack of female comedians, I think he was suggesting that according to the research he was talking about QI doesn't l have any more cause statistically the audience might laugh less
So true. Women laugh way more and are so much better at laughing at themselves.
0:36 funny and 0:56 cringe.
Why do I find the thumbnail to be informative and misleading?
The irony of this discussion is that with Sandi as host they have more women panelists, and the show is just as good.
No it isn't. I'm on a binge of QI clips, definitely less funny post switch.
I’m also on a binge. It’s better with Sandy. Stephen is funnier, but he takes all the focus away from the guests. With Sandy, the humour of the guests are allowed to shine, which improves the show in it’s entirety.
. . . . . . Sorry. I tuned out. Are they still talking ? . . . . . .
Well, we didn't get into this one: the funniest women commedians are lesbian. Seems that way to me.
Men are funnier than women - just the way we're made.
Alan and Jack got the biggest laughs and spoke the least in this clip. Keep it short and sweet girls.
Well, they can't because they had to speak on the topic. If you have to explain why you are funny then you prove yourself wrong but women have to justify their humor all the time.
But if you had more women on the panel then they'd laugh less because women laugh less at women
@@tomsmith6878 No, Stephen said at the end that swapping all male panel members out would increase the laughs produced by the panel. It's not a necessarily correct conclusion from the information.
Thank you for explaining the decline of the new series.
Sandy gained money and lost weight
I think it's also about perception, we are conditioned to see more ridiculousness from men than from women since birth. For many people seeing a girl do something ridiculous and therefore funny also feels 'unladylike', subconsciously
It's ingrained into nearly all forms of entertainment. Look back to all the cartoons and other shows you watched when you were growing up. Ever notice how female characters are virtually immune to slapstick humour, and it's almost always the male that ends up getting humiliated or hurt?
@@ZondaFRoadster - Lucille Ball? Joan Davis? Carol Burnett? Melissa McCarthy? Just to name a few of the best known physical comediennes. Careful not to over generalize. Some of the limitations on women in mid-20th Century entertainment were placed on them by managers and promoters and sponsors of early TV. Slapstick humor by women was much more common in the vaudeville days, but it didn't translate well to the mores of the 1940's - 50's starched underwear society. It didn't match the "ideal" suburban housewife mold.
@@nickchevance9401 you say that but in every film (or even adverts) nowadays the female characters are essentially perfect and can do no wrong where as the male characters are generally morons who couldn't tell their left foot from their right.
No, that's a ridiculous assertion. No one looks at a girl doing something silly and thinks, "she shouldn't do that, she's a girl!"
@Human Resources No, they don't.
Lee Mack says its because men have evolved to want to make women laugh. Its a way of flirting.
That sounds absolutely ridiculous
@@miantava Not really. Many, if not most, women on dating sites want a man with "a good sense of humour". Along with him being 6' tall, ripped and rich, for example.
They put having a sense of humour at a similar level as physical appearance or success. Heck, if you are really funny, it can even make up for the things you are lacking.
So it's not a far fetched theory.
Well, case in point... there are on;y three truly funny jokes in the entire video: one by Alan and two killer jokes by Jack
Who Laughs More? Men v Women case in point jack made a JOKE and didnt laugh
Most female comedians make jokes related to being a woman. Most male comedians make jokes about everything else.
...on a show that used to consist of 62% cock jokes.
This needs to be a longer discussion, the group seems far too rational to give in to wanky social pressure
Comedy involves inappropriateness and risking insult. Men statistically are higher on the "disagreeableness" scale and therefore are more innately wired for comedy. Could you envision a female Peter Griffin? Of course not. Coarseness, which plays a large part in comedy is more a male attribute.
On the other hand, Bart Simpson is a woman.
@Michel de Bruyn: However her lines are written by mostly men.
@@Carabas72 you mean voiced by a woman lol
I'm not sure why I'm surprised by all the comments shitting on women in the comment section. lol
I know, right? How is it that masculinity is so frail?
Well, that was awkward
A curious point though. Is this a biological proclivity or a social construct? I would suppose that men are funny in part to impress women and women laugh at men who they find clever or socially powerful. So a woman would not be seen as funny by some men because it threatens their social status or makes the woman "masculine" in their eyes. Women find men funnier probably for the same reasons. Of course there are some brilliant comediennes but the majority of comedy comes from Male folk especially gay men... go figure.
Good point
I'd put a case for biology.
Think about it: what evolutionary force would select for funny women? Does humour serve an important function in a female?
Whereas it's been well-known both in scientific literature and pop culture for a very long time that men use humour as a courting behaviour. Women like funny men, and women are the the sexual group who does the selection, therefore men who are funny end up getting selected for and men who aren't end up selected against. No such selection occurs in the other direction.
There have probably been vanishingly few women who managed to reproduce only because they made their potential mates laugh, whereas it has a track record of some amount of success in men.
You aren't born funny, you practice the ability to become funny.
Both. It takes lots of analysis and practice to develop the habit of getting the delivery and timing right - but just like in playing music, it also takes talent as well. Learning the format can make you reasonably effective and workmanlike...but to be top tier in either field requires something more.
@@aussiebloke609
Meh, talent is overrated.
@@MegaBanne it definitely isn't lol
@@lukeet331
Give me the scientific methodology you used to come to that conclusion.
@@MegaBanne How the fuck is that even possible lol, comedy is subject at the best of times... But all you have to do is look at every other skill, sport etc. They all have a large genetic component. Take comedians such as Jim Carrey or Rowan Atkinson they can contort their faces I manor's others simply wouldn't be able to do regardless of time being learning...
Man I would love it so much if the audience could laugh less and the panel more on QI I can’t hear the jokes half the time bc the audience is still laughing at a joke from three sentences ago
The fact that who ever that one next to fry on the right wasnt funny just proves the point
The way I see it is 90% of all female comedians concentrate on being a woman and feminism, etc. Look at a great show like Taskmaster. It's great but all the females on it try too hard to make it about being a woman and it's just boring
Men are bad am I right ladies.
Another one is talking about their mum and smacking them on the bum if they were naughty. Then asking the ladies in the crowd if they were naughty and got smacked.
No you're right most men have never made a joke about their dicks or being a husband or dad or etc etc etc ffs
@@demark8262 it's how they go about it more than the subject matter. If you want to see some mediocre comedy about being a father done in a style more commonly used by women just watch Phil jupitus do stand up.
@@cowjuicy it's how they go about it more than the subject matter" Contradicts the original point he made.............at the very least it’s a different point......
@@demark8262 it's the "concentrates" part which keeps it the same point. When the joke begins and ends about being a woman in a woman's situation it gets tiresome. Whereas say jack dee for example begins at "being a father is hard" and leads to a story of his kids costumes being shit compared to what other kids were wearing.
The dumbest joke got the biggest laugh. That is this episode in a nutshell.
The timing was good
Yeah, it was all about timing. And the best jokes usually are.
@gerard dearie If you're getting those "vibes"' from that comment, you're the one with issues.
@gerard dearie I'm not seeing them but damn you've got me curious.
@gerard dearie Every thing ever written by Christopher Hitchens was drivel, & even then none of it was funny either!
Wait! You are still allowed to recite scientific studied differences between men and women in Britain?! Must be nice
@Boe Dillard So you get logical people (men) and women? Although the so-called logical person's deduction that the woman is racist is not supported by anything the woman said, since race did not come up. Not our Earth logic then.
@Boe Dillard I see I misunderstood your last sentence. You are saying that women (and liberals) who complain about inequality are dissatisfied with whatever response they get and expose themselves in the end as illogical and ignorant creatures. I suppose there are women (and liberals) like that. That they are all like that seems to be a beloved conservative, traditionalist and male argument, devoid of any logic and ignorant to the core.
@Boe Dillard It's hard being both female and liberal ... We do so rely on generalisations to set us on the right path.
I've always thought Ronnie is lovely.. I could play with her all day long
Something I hadn't thought about. (this is privilege for those who still don't get it) Women comedians are usually talking about being women. Black comedians talk about being black. Hispanic comedians talk about being Hispanic. White, male comics don't have to do that. Interesting.
None of them HAVE to talk about anything.
@@doornik1142 Obviously they don't HAVE to, that's why I said usually. If a large, black female comedian comes up on stage, for example, and doesn't want to talk about being large, black, or a woman, she's at a disadvantage.
@@MisterItchy Not really a disadvantage. It's their choice to make jokes about those subjects. If an asian dude did some stand up and made jokes about shit like taxes or traveling i wouldn't be shouting "Hey where are tha asian jokes". It's the comedian who chooses what they joke about
@@MisterItchy Well if they don't HAVE to do it then they CHOOSE to do it. Which means there is no "privilege" involved.
@@doornik1142 I thought it was clear but the privilege I was referring to was my privilege as a white male. Because I am a white male, I don't have to think these sort of things in my day-to-day life. I appreciate when situations like this video make me appreciate this.
Maybe it's as simple as men just having more opportunities and hence more motive to be funny. Give it time and there will likely eventually be just as many female comedians as male ones.
And maybe it's just me, but Jack Dee's one-liner has lost its humour. You see it so many times and it stops being funny.
it is re-uploaded under so many different titles as a way of getting attention again that it seems to undermine the rest of the conservation in this video, also theres too much to factor into the surrounding constructs of women comedians that the 'one' study they mention doesnt cover
As societies get more equal, the size difference between the interests of men and women increase, rather than decrease.
I'm choosing a hard "doubt" on there ever being as many female comedians, or even close, as there are male comedians.
So true, Michael.
@@KaNoMikoProductions yeah true without a nudge or incentives women are less likely to follow sciences and engineering. My computer science class was giving it grants to get more women and they still could only get 5 girls on the course lol
I think the biggest problem with female comedians is they try to be safe and all tell essentially the same jokes. The jokes are either about sex or a sex organ and rarely about anything else whereas men vary their jokes a lot more and are more willing to take risks. For example it's very difficult to think of a single woman in my life or TV that has made a joke about something horrific whereas men do it fairly regularly and it pays off. until someone's offended but even then....
Most women don't tend laugh at wit but tend to laugh at people and cruel comments.
No, I think that’s just you.
@@Koreviking grow up.
@@notthemessiah9243 Triggered?
@@Koreviking grow up.
@@notthemessiah9243 You said that already.