Women Are Plenty Funny; Men Just Aren’t Laughing

Women aren’t funny. It’s a stereotype that has been around as long as… well, comedy itself. But since there is, in reality, no shortage of funny women, where does the notion that comedy is exclusive to men come from? Comedian Drew Carey offers one explanation: “It’s not so much that women aren’t funny, he explains, as that men don’t want them to be funny.”