Via reader StAugustine, who supplied a quote from Irvin Cobb as an answer to the Hivemind media propaganda blitz asserting that women are just as funny as men.
Seriously. From Irwin S. Cobb’s memoirs (1923), I’ve treasured this nugget:
“You may have noticed that in making this classification, I have used the masculine gender exclusively. I have done so advisedly and after due thought, because all the best authorities agree that it is not in the nature of a woman to take a joke, for better or for worse, the first time she meets it face to face. In the matter of being shown, the average woman, so far as humor is concerned, is so far out in Missouri that she’s practically in Kansas. She is up on the tallest peak of the Ozark Mountains, very skeptical, not to say skittish. She wants to hear a thing that’s funny several times and let it soak into her and mingle with her other ingredients; then after a suitable period of time she begins to care for it and forever after bears it a deep and lasting affection. At least, soothe authorities confirm.”
Cobb captured a particular feature of women very well: their conformist herd mentality influences almost everything they set about to understand, even the world of humor. But once woman has latched onto a novel observation (or narrative) she won’t easily relinquish it, until signaled by her peers that it’s ok to do so.
I’ve seen this many times. You practically have to explain it to them. They laugh only when given permission to do so.
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I’ve found some women who can get some jokes and sense enough to laugh even when they do not. But as far as funny goes, the hive mind will have a hard sell convincing people that women can tell jokes just as well as men.
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Obvious example: Amy Jewmer, I mean Schumer. Just as unfunny and hamfisted as every other sjw, yet you have manlets who think she is attainable (because she is fat) cheering her on. Couple with feminist flavor of the month and our forced exposure to her is far out of proportion to her talent.
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Jewish ethnic networking. Chuck Schumer’s cousin, given a spot on the dais for a Comedy Central Roast, other minor roles on Jewish shows, Judd Apatow appears to direct the movie she wrote the screenplay for, endless hype from the Jewish media, and voila! The Sheryl Sandberg of comedy.
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Women all “love to laugh”, but they are the receivers and consumers of humor, not its creators.
It is the same with: music, orgasms, food, safety, safe civilization, housing, cars and other machines that make life easier, money, material goods, love, sanity, family-first attitude (women must be forced by law and social mores to put the needs of their children above their own *wants* and “desires” and “feelings”, contrary to modern femtard stereotypes to the contrary that falsely portray women as having a natural motherly instinct; see, as proof, the modern state of no fault divorce), fun activities to do, date ideas, etc.
For each of these things, women “love to have …”, and in each case they are the recipients of these things, which are created and given by men.
This is as it should be; it’s nature. What’s not natural is the libtard fight against nature and the brainwashing of our women against their natures in the media.
In the area of sex, finally figuring this out has made my sex life so much more fun. They truly do want me to give it to them, the harder the better (while also being able to last as long as I want, as I can do in my old age probably from practicing with porn about 13,000 times, but that’s cool).
I now realize that in my beta days in my 20s, although I bedded many fit, beautiful women for a while (using beta game — tree branch swinging), I got dumped eventually and otherwise missed out on so much good sex that I wanted to do and I now know she wanted me to do, too, but I did not do for fear of being seen as a “weirdo” or not gentle enough or whatever.
Now with my new found knowledge, I might bang a girl for 40 minutes and give her 5 orgasms (yeah, internet keyboard commander, but it’s true), and then I want to sleep, and she will keep grabbing me and rubbing me, wanting more, so then I will “punish” her for not letting me sleep, tie her up, and bang her for 40 more minutes while telling her that this is going to go on for another hour. So she pretty much orgasms nonstop for 40 additional minutes. At this point I need to really bang her to even finish, and the more I do this type of thing, the more she cries and pouts because I won’t let her come over every night. Good times.
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“women must be forced by law and social mores to put the needs of their children above their own *wants* and “desires” and “feelings”, contrary to modern femtard stereotypes to the contrary that falsely portray women as having a natural motherly instinct; see, as proof, the modern state of no fault divorce”…..feminism has successfully squashed, or at the very least heavily subdued the natural mothering instinct inherent in woman. But it is not laws that allow a mother, for example, to put aside her need for sleep in order to tend to her baby at night. It is not social mores that help women identify the times when whatever she is doing needs to be put aside because her child just needs to be held.
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“She wants to hear a thing that’s funny several times and let it soak into her and mingle with her other ingredients; then after a suitable period of time she begins to care for it and forever after bears it a deep and lasting affection. At least, soothe authorities confirm.”
This is an interesting thing to me… can it not be applied to many other topics? I find that if I share a piece of provocative literature or information with a femen, if she doesn’t agree/love it right then and there, she dismisses it. But if she likes it a little at the forefront, she will need time and tide to truly take it in and appreciate it. Whereas I’ve processed it and moved on to the next great thing.
Amy Schumer, good lawd, ugh.
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this observation may be because of adage women win crowd to win argument, not otherway around…so humor may not be properly vetted first. Which is why you are dull and boring but Tom Brady is very charming.
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There are no heterosexual women that are genuinely funny and the heterosexual one’s who play at it — e.g., Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, etc. are simply horrible fucking people. To a woman, exactly the type of shameless slattern that no high value man would ever associate with.
Real comedy is aggression. Thus, it is unnatural (and profoundly unattractive) when any heterosexual woman gravitates to it.
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Maria Bamford is the only female comic I generally like. I liked Silverman until she got super political. She used to skewer leftists, perhaps unconcsciously, and it was good. In her favor, her telling of The Aristocrats in Penn Gillette’s film is aggressive, funny as shit and epicly insane. Not as good as Bob Saget’s version, but very good. Got her sued for libel. Nicely done!
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While not the same “I’m a rude slut” schtick as the tribe female comics, I even find Maria Bamford’s “quirky” persona affected and off putting.
I doubt that Lisa lampenelli writes any of her own stuff. Amy Poehler, Tina Fey … none of them can even come close to hanging with the best male comedians.
Adam Carolla was 100% right.
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You’re right about the women being horrible people, because the pushed trend for a number of years is rudeness, snarkiness, and now sluttiness.
But I don’t think comedy is aggression, per se. Gals like Rita Rudner and Ellen Degeneres, who specialize in self-deprecation, used to amuse quite a bit. Ernie Kovacs, Seinfeld, Dangerfield… often poked more fun at themselves and the quirks in of all of us than any hard-edged bile.
One of the funniest movies I ever saw was Cagney’s last starring role, One, Two, Three, where he (and the screen writers) skewered, good-naturedly, American Corporate Culture, Cold War Communism, Postwar Germany, Youthful Idealism, Feminine Superficiality, and Middle Class Upward Mobilism. All in a delightfully frenetic and staccato rhythm.
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Hitchens nailed this a few years ago:
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You also see that same tendency in industry and business, with a few rare exceptions, with most being in the service industry.
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I spent fifteen years as a touring standup and can tell you unequivocally that in all that time- 50 weeks a year on the road in clubs and on campuses- I encountered three funny women. 3. This is by comic standards; understanding the mechanics of how jokes are constructed, call backs, tag lines, audience rapport, command of the stage, ability to deal with hecklers/small crowds/hostile audiences/poor sound systems/, the chaos of life on the road, travel management, fitness and overall health issues.
The vast majority are emotional wrecks, really screwed up by average woman standards, promiscuous, drug or alcohol impaired to a major degree, that kind of thing. Their comedy was virtually always angry, their self appraisal unrealistic in the extreme, their manipulation of bigger name or more talented comics, or coat-tailing was deliberate and without shame.
They rarely wrote new or even original material beyond their first fifteen minutes worth instead depending upon the beta comic orbiters to write some of their best material and they focused almost everything on themselves rather than the world.
Women aren’t funny because… drum roll please… women aren’t funny. In the same way that women do not perform acts of heroism, will not seek out risky and extremely difficult and arduous labor as a means of earning a living, etc. Sure, there are unicorns out there- T Marni Vos, Wendy Liebman, Beth Donahue- but they are as rare as hen’s teeth and believe me there is a deep desire on the part of the industry to find them and develop them to the point of trying to convince people that pigs like Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes or Amy Schumer have ever said anything funny, even by accident.
I’m sure it sucks to be a woman comedian, knowing that the only reason you ever got the gig was because you were a woman.
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Men find women that make cute jokes and are silly and playful attractive, but not genuinely humorous. Little funny quips are endearing until the road veers into Sarcastic Bitch Tone(tm)
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yep. i agree completely.
problem is most girls these days don’t even know how to do cute, silly, and, playful. they think being sarcastic and vulgar is the same thing as humor and charm. sad times we live in.
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The funniest women are (were) those who understand that sex differences exist even in comedy. The ones who try to be insulting, aggressive, “male” style comics just come across as bitchy, skanky, and screechy. Not funny.
Gracie Allen mastered “female” comedy with her vaudeville and radio persona: sweet, ditzy, and (seemingly) unconsciously hilarious.
Comedy requires a person who can mock his or her own failings. Male comics get this, which is why most of them play caricatures of themselves. Nobody is as neurotic as Woody Allen’s stage persona.
For a woman to be a comic, she must be a caricature of a woman, and modern feminism has made mocking women off-limits. The only way modern women are allowed to “mock” women is for not being sufficiently feminist (kind of the way liberal comics will only mock Democrats for not being sufficiently liberal). But since comedy relies on a core of truth, this ingrained dishonesty fails as comedy. At best there can be some verbal cleverness or entertaining invective, but that’s all.
Prediction: some genuinely smart woman will stumble across this and attain great success by reinventing female comedy.
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exactly.
i have met some girls who were actually pretty funny and charming but that’s only because they were exactly the way you mentioned. feminine, sweet, self-deprecating. nothing at all like what most women do. don’t find many girls like that anymore and i kind of miss it. they were a lot of fun.
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Girls and humor – A gaping double standard:
Girls want to be the life and soul of the party.
Yet girls don’t want boys manspreading.
Girls want everyone to know they’re HILARIOUS.
and will write needlessly verbose 5000-word articles convincing us so. (boring)
Girls want to be funny.
As Lindy West (Ham) (united) constantly wags her fat finger at [x] where [x] is usually something fun or funny.
They don’t know what it’s like to be punched, so they don’t understand the subtlety between a laser guided deflection and snarky snark. Snark often IS the punchline.
They don’t know what it feels like to be milliseconds away from a slap, when all that can save you is mission-critical, perfect, comedic timing.
Sidenote: Liberals, feminists, lefties, for all their talk of ‘progression’, are often more conservative than the squeakiest of clean bible-belt Conservatives at times.
Ned Flanders wouldn’t tell you to shut up. Lindy West would.
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