Well its not an uncommon sentiment, many males and females have discussed this gender difference and there are quite a few well reasoned theories. Depending on how complicated you want to get you could discuss this topic from evolutionary, psychological, social and or chemical reasons/perspectives. Then you have to remember what's funny is as much as the people receiving the humor as giving the humor. I don't know too many funny female comediennes but then again I don't know many funny American comedians either. Doesn't mean they there aren't any funny ones, and some people in life literally laugh when they hear other people laugh, so you know? I don't laugh often, but I appreciate wit. Most of the comedians I like as far as stand up (Lenny Bruce, Stewart Lee, Bill Hicks, George Carlin) are witty but also share other common themes that for more than a few reasons tend to occur more with males than females, but aren't objectively bound to happening to just males, nor is it even common with males, and with time such variables become less gender exclusive. There are lots of funny shows I watch with many funny females starring or writing in them though which brings up a point about humor delivered in a second hand sense as opposed to first hand. Humor is no different than anything else in that many people find humor in ways that are ego boosting. It can also to do with familiarity, empathy and anticipation. Woman are shown to laugh more at things than men generally. So do woman have lower standards than men in comedy? Its actually more to them having lower expectations in comedy. If there expectations were the same as men would as many male comedians succeed as much? I don't know its a bit like asking if as many female pornstars would succeed if males had higher expectations?
When humor becomes business, it takes on objective qualities, thus many comedians try to know who there audience is and they cater for them. Which means not necessarily being funny, but being funny to the group that will end up laughing. Which is why sometimes you get themes that develop and that can get made fun of. Like what's with observation humor? What's up with that? So this one time I was at this petrol station and I saw a blah blah - yeah no that comedian wasn't at a petrol station. See I am naturally biased towards British humor and its not coincidence my favorite American comedians were as well lol because traditionally its a bit more sarcastic and a bit more dry and a bit more subtle and a bit more about making a point than trying to be funny or trying to get attention. Traditionally, the lines have been blurring for a while.
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