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Are funny men attractive?
The answer’s obviously yes, based on the number of women I’ve heard say so.
But I have a question for you gals: What kind of funny is sexy in a man and what kind isn’t? Do you prefer sophomoric or sardonic? Goofy or clever? A clown or a wit? A goodnatured kidder or a coldblooded satirist? And why?
Funny Ha Ha, or Funny Peculiar?
Sure–they have to have a sense of humor or they are uncomfortable to be around (unless the other partner is humor-challenged too). I personally like a good saronic wit that doesn’t hurt anyone. Goofy is fine too. The only bad thing would be guffawing like crazy at a small joke and letting that go on too long; move on to the next witty comment!
But seriously folks -
Hmmm - I’m a girl and I’m funny, sexy and yes, a loser with relationships, I did suffer some serious traumas as a child and so I do think life is pretty absurd, you just have to laugh, prefer hanging out with the boys. I’m interested in this funny girl picks down date theory too - am I doomed?
Men’s humour - satire is good for a while, but you got to know when to cut it off. Goofy’s not sexy, clever is. The clown is always a tragic figure really, but now wit is sexy. Slap and tickle is sexy. A goodnatured kidder - yeah - he’s going to get some too.
Frat guy humor. Everything from running down the street nake w/ toilet paper hanging from his ass to making crude jokes about sex.
:dubious: Been hanging out at the sorority houses much? Count me out.
I like a guy whose sense of humor is versatile. Goofy is great, as is sophomoric, when appropriate; I had a 7th grader once tell me I was immature. Clever, self-aware satire quite literally turns me on. If Stephen Colbert wasn’t married, I’d hunt him down.
Humor is really an aphrodisiac. I’ve dated men who were very serious and it always gets too dark in the end. My boyfriend ain’t Johnny Depp, but he makes me laugh my ass off every day, in lots of different ways, and most importantly-- he can take it right back. Never gets mad. Never takes something seriously when he could laugh it off. Kind of a teflon personality, helps me take things in the proper spirit. His motto is, “Nothing is so bad that you can’t find a way to laugh at it,” and damn, has that lightened up my life.
Being funny is practically a dealbreaker, for me. I’d much rather be with an average-looking, riotously funny woman than with a knock-out who has no sense of humor. One notable exception to this is people who don’t know how to “turn it off”, though I’ve observed this more often in men than in women.
He’s the hottest thing on the planet. I guess it must be his humour because otherwise how’s hottest guy on the whole planet a Sunday school teacher who hasn’t done a situp since 1987?
On the other hand, realistically, I just like it when a guy has the sense of humour I won’t get accustomed to. I like it when I can’t figure out how he came up with it. When he makes the joke I never would have thought of in a million years. It’s impressive. It makes me think he will challenge me and I won’t get tired of him. He will offer me something I don’t already have, I guess. If me and a guy both make the same type of joke all the time it makes me feel like we we’re just friends. I can have good rapport with a guy where we like all the same comedy and laugh all the time together making the same dumb jokes but it doesn’t make me attracted to him, it makes me feel like we’re just making friends. I work with all these guys and they all pretty much make me laugh but that’s not hard. There’s one guy who just makes jokes just to me, one on one, that always take me by surprise so he stands out and I think of him as the attractive one. He says the darndest things. He’s adorable.
With mis-matched ears, no less. 
Interesting question, are funny men attractive. That would have to be a qualifed “yes” for me. Mean humour is right out; juvenile humour is okay occasionally, but not if that is his only type of humour. As others have said, a guy needs to know when to be serious, too. My husband occasionally has trouble with this, but as soon as I indicate that it’s time to be serious, he stops making jokes.
Based on my ancient single days,
Handsome + no sense of humour = not long-term material
Not handsome + no sense of humour = someone I couldn’t even go for coffee with
Not handsome + sense of humour = definitely a prospect
Handsome + sense of humour = oh yeah, baby!
Yes, a similar sense of humor is probably the one most important quality I look for in a man. As for the “kind” of humor, I guess it’s easier to rule out the kind of humor I don’t like than to say what I do like.
I don’t like guys who use humor to insult or cut down other people, at least when it’s someone you actually know (I consider making fun of celebrities/people in the news to be harmless). Too many times, people say something jerkish and then use “I was just kidding!” to get away with it. I don’t want to have to deal with that kind of crap in a relationship.
I suppose it should be obvious that jokes that could be consider offensive to another race/religion, disabled people, etc. are also a big turn-off.
I’m not a fan of toilet humor or fart jokes either.
Other than that, everything else is fair game.
Yeah, gals that bring the funny make me want to pounce them vigorously.
I don’t bump into many gals that can really bring the funny, though. I end up being the one that starts the inside jokes in the relationships. I don’t mind doing all the work, but it’d be better to have a partner in crime as opposed to a captive, traveling audience.
Gosh, I’ve never been compared to saltpeter before – favorably or otherwise!
I kind of like that … something tells me that calling someone saltpeter wouldn’t work as well, but I’ll have to remember the “you aren’t exactly saltpeter, you know” line. 
Yeah, but that’s only 'cause I defended you when Clockwork and Candy called you pretentious. 
But, you know, drop me a line if you ever get back out this way…
Roseanne Barr is (or was at some point) very funny. I did not find her attractive then or now.
I can’t say I had any attraction to Lady Di, though she seemed realtively pryxically attractive, though I never saw any evidence that she had any more sense of humor than Lassie.
Then consider Laura Kightlinger and Ellen Degeneres, both of whom I think are attrative and funny even though at least one of them is gay, and for that if no other reason eould not be interested in a relationship with me.
Conclusion: WTF do I know?
I find funny women very sexy, but have a caveat when it comes to relationships – if either partner is constantly “on”, it makes it hard to ever really get close to them. By “on”, I mean presenting herself as a performer. This can apply to any kind of performance talent – comedy, music, acting. Some people want an audience more than they want a romantic partner.
What she said.
Best of luck matey.
Just one question, is she smart at fucking?
Yes, but women who find me funny are more attractive.
Goofy and physically funny works for me. I get to be Oscar Wilde, dammit, you can be Curly!
Ok, not Curly. But I do like a guy whose humor is good-natured, boisterous, and cheerful. I’ve got plenty of the bitter humor myself, I really think I need someone who offsets it with some lightness.
Personally, what I find sexy is when you’re with a guy who is a little bit of a kid inside, and clowns around while you’re in normal conversation, but then just switches to smokin’ hot sexy when he’s in the mood for some lovin’. The contrast is amazingly sexy to me.