Why is humor so important to women?

[cantdrv55]

I asked my wife what convinced her that I was the one and she said it was that I made her laugh. Not exactly what I wanted to hear but I'll take it. Anyway, I've heard other women say the same thing about their men. So I guess they dig the strong silent and dangerous types first then settle down with the fun guys? Lucky for my wife she got a two for one in me!

[island911]

Funny, eh? Well, looks aren't every thing. Buh Dmp chiinnng

Humor requires wit. What woman would want a dimwit?

[pwd72s]

Don't make me laugh.

[livi]

I hear that too. I believe it is true - once they have all their basic priorities covered. Nice home, nice kids, nice economy, nice wardrobe. These are commodities counted in for granted. After that, one of the more important features of the poor sod covering their basic needs, is the ability to make them laugh - at him.

Now what is the most important feature in a woman ?

[slakjaw]

Women are funny.

[adrian jaye]

women are emotionally driven,
men are not (as)

sexually, she is getting turned on about the anticipation, how you've treated her, wether she feels cherised.

MEN: just get a woody when she wears her BLING underwear..

So making a women laugh, makes HER feel good, comfortable and relaxed

[oldE]

Eddie Valiant, "So, what do you see in that guy?"

Jessica Rabbit, "He makes me laugh."

With all the tensions and stresses of daily life, the ability to make someone laugh and reduce stress is important, IF it is combined with a reliable nature.

Les

[fingpilot]

Originally posted by livi
Now what is the most important feature in a woman ?

Nice A$$. One that I won't find funny.


Seriously....

[cool_chick]

I suppose because so many men can be downright mean. When they're funny, they're nice????

I dunno. Good question that I'm pondering why myself.......but it's true, women do like funny men.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

A guy's naked body is enough to make most people - including women - laugh. A woman's body is artwork. A man's body is all the leftover crap from the artist's studio jumbled together.

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
A guy's naked body is enough to make most people - including women - laugh. A woman's body is artwork. A man's body is all the leftover crap from the artist's studio jumbled together.

I dunno if I would agree with that....

A man's tight body is friggin beautiful....

[livi]

I like funny men, too. As opposed to boring men.
And I would prefer a partner that make me laugh before one that repeatedly make me cry..

All in all, seems pretty undisputed.

[legion]

My wife doesn't get my sense of humor at all.

[Overpaid Slacker]

I'd read an interesting study of humor within the last few months. If anybody is really interested, I'll try to find it.

Essentially, the results of the study were that women are not as quick or facile with the elements of humor... slower on the uptake and less likely to recognize or generate the dichotomies often at the root of humor.

Please, before every Y-chromosome deficient freakshow gets all defensive... it's not to say there can't be funny women, or women who possess the skillsets involved, simply that there will be fewer of them, and even those may not, on the whole, equal the male side. Frankly, I think the almost total absence of funny comediennes illustrates the point. (And I don't find "didja ever buy a dress 'cause you needed change for gum?" to be funny).

Going beyond the strict limits of the study, I'd guess that, lacking (but still appreciating) these skills, it provides a cerebral satisfaction that women are unable (or dramatically less able) to provide for themselves.

JP

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by fingpilot
Nice A$$. One that I won't find funny.


Seriously....

And one that has not gotten three foot wide with age...

[jluetjen]

Nothing seems to get an evening off to a good start like getting my wife to laugh. A really good belly laugh (or better yet surpressed laughter -- like the old George Carlin schtick) while we're settling in for the night always seems to get my wife in the mood. Note that tickling definitely doesn't do it, it needs to be a really clever, humorous shared moment. If the kids are trying to go to sleep and as a result we try not to laugh out loud, it makes the moment even better.

[wludavid]

JP: I agree that there are fewer truly funny comediennes out there, but I don't think that's necessarily because women are less funny. Women have a fundamentally different sense of humor than men do, and since it's often men who book comedy clubs and decide whether comic movies and TV programs are green-lit, funny women tend to get less exposure.

[vash]

it is because they sound like total whores if they told the truth.

so they clean it up, buy looking for the "funny man".

[Overpaid Slacker]

wludavid -

You may be right; however it's not my theory that I pulled out of thin air. These folks (men and women) put together some kind of agreed-upon matrix for humor and tested scores of subjects. So the "difference" of female sense of humor was controlled for, as much as was possible.

However, acknowledging the danger of an infinite regression -- if women WERE funnier, wouldn't they find it less difficult to get bookings? Women are 1/2 the population (give or take), and in markets that pander to and/or would KILL for 5-6% of the population's interest (such as entertainment), "funny" women, even if only "funny" to women (and gays?) would still have a huge built-in audience.

Especially in markets, such as humor or entertainment, that celebrate fads, and "next great things" and indulging differences. If there were even a handful of "funny" women (meaning funny to more than a small % of other women) I'd think they'd be given more than a "fair" chance b/c they'd be different, the exception, the novelty, etc...

It's not like we're not subject to a parade of awful entertainers b/c such entertainers happen to be black, or asian, or some idiosyncratic twist on the white male norm.

If "funny" women get less exposure, it still doesn't address why there are fewer of them to get exposure. That's what this study attempted to evaluate. Naturally, nobody likes being told they're not funny ... and when the result confirms the empirical evidence and "harms" a protected class, it's not front page news.

JP

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Okay, CC is right. There are certain circumstances under which a male physique might be attractive/beautiful/sculptural, but they're few and far between. Typically guys have lumpy, hairy, weird-shaped bodies that really ARE kinda' funny. The occasional Atlas-looking guy or powerlifter OTOH. . . yea. . . that's attractive. In a purely heterosexual kind of way.