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"The subjects the women spoke about were essentially all the same. They were, in short, all about themselves. Their life, their hair, their roommates, their feelings. In other words, all the female comedy was turned inward. Out of five 7-minute sets, there were only three jokes that spoke about outside events and only one joke about politics. It took 28 minutes before I laughed aloud.
The men, on the other hand, rarely spoke about themselves. Jokes about their appearance were used as soft openers in order to lead the audience into the set. This is not to say that male comedians are not capable of being horrible, self-involved, rambling bores. Dear God, are they ever! But out of my personal test group, they were not. They spoke liberally about history, religion, and politics. They spoke in pithy, crafted observations. Never once did they mention they felt fat."
This points to a larger difference between men and women. Women on the whole do not care what happens in the wider world. Instead they are mostly only concerned with their own little world hence when they are writing jokes it tends to mostly fall into the category of how doing their make up is hard, how PMS sucks and the like. Men on the hand DO care about these issues which is why male comedians have jokes about politics and society at large. For a woman, if something doesn't effect her personally and directly then it simply doesn't register on her mental radar.
"The subjects the women spoke about were essentially all the same. They were, in short, all about themselves. Their life, their hair, their roommates, their feelings. In other words, all the female comedy was turned inward. Out of five 7-minute sets, there were only three jokes that spoke about outside events and only one joke about politics. It took 28 minutes before I laughed aloud.
The men, on the other hand, rarely spoke about themselves. Jokes about their appearance were used as soft openers in order to lead the audience into the set. This is not to say that male comedians are not capable of being horrible, self-involved, rambling bores. Dear God, are they ever! But out of my personal test group, they were not. They spoke liberally about history, religion, and politics. They spoke in pithy, crafted observations. Never once did they mention they felt fat."
This points to a larger difference between men and women. Women on the whole do not care what happens in the wider world. Instead they are mostly only concerned with their own little world hence when they are writing jokes it tends to mostly fall into the category of how doing their make up is hard, how PMS sucks and the like. Men on the hand DO care about these issues which is why male comedians have jokes about politics and society at large. For a woman, if something doesn't effect her personally and directly then it simply doesn't register on her mental radar.