The divine Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders.
Sorry girls. Absolutely Fabulous you may be, but funny? "Not so much."
Look on the bright side, this has nothing to do with Sarah Palin:
Christopher Hitchens on men, women and humor: "Precisely because humor is a sign of intelligence (and many women believe, or were taught by their mothers, that they become threatening to men if they appear too bright), it could be that in some way men do not want women to be funny. They want them as an audience, not as rivals. And there is a huge, brimming reservoir of male unease, which it would be too easy for women to exploit. (Men can tell jokes about what happened to John Wayne Bobbitt, but they don't want women doing so.)"
(Ignoring the sexism inherent in Hitchens's framing of the issue, what do you think? Take the poll.)
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