From what I can see from the excerpt you gave us, he's merely being sexist to be sexist, but trying to dumb it down by saying something that wouldn't necessarily jump at us as being a sign of his conception of female inferiority, that being that
they aren't funny. Which, as you have stated, is utter bullshit, as some of the best comics in the business are women.
He's obviously out of touch with reality, or humor in general just goes over his head.
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Originally Posted by kahljorn
My girlfriend's hilarious and her journalism teacher thinks she could be the next dan bell (some famous syndicated humor writer, not sure if the name is right) or some crap. I'll admit many of the girls i know have no, or a very poor, sense of humor but I think that has more to do with how they are raised than anything having to do with the ability of women to make jokes.
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Very true. However, there's also differing senses of humor among people. While something may not be funny to you or I, it may be hysterical to someone else, such as the comic's primary audience. I have a hard time immediately saying "that person's not funny", because while he may not be funny to me, there's easily someone who may find him funny no matter how stupid I think he/she is.