Zócalo Public SquareWoman, You Make Me Laugh – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Woman, You Make Me Laugh https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/10/09/woman-you-make-me-laugh/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/10/09/woman-you-make-me-laugh/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:01:40 +0000 Zocalo http://new.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=38785 If we’ve widely accepted that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, we shouldn’t be surprised when what’s funny on one planet is considered crass or corny on the other. Yet controversy continues to swirl around the differences between men and women when it comes to humor—and scientists, psychologists, pundits, and comedians all have their own theories about which sex is funnier, and why. In advance of the Zócalo event “Can Women Be Funny?” we asked people who study and traffic in humor to point out the biggest difference between men and women when it comes to the business of laughter.

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]]> If we’ve widely accepted that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, we shouldn’t be surprised when what’s funny on one planet is considered crass or corny on the other. Yet controversy continues to swirl around the differences between men and women when it comes to humor—and scientists, psychologists, pundits, and comedians all have their own theories about which sex is funnier, and why. In advance of the Zócalo event “Can Women Be Funny?” we asked people who study and traffic in humor to point out the biggest difference between men and women when it comes to the business of laughter.

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