# Are women biologically incapable of appreciating the Three Stooges? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510 "2001-09-29T19:46:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saudade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@saudade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saudade)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/1 "2001-09-29T19:46:42Z")
Supposedly this is an indisputable fact. The humor of Larry, Curly, and Moe - and Shemp for that matter - is so puerile and male oriented that no female in history ever liked it. So are there any women who disagree? ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/2 "2001-09-29T20:29:36Z")
It is an easily disputable fact. I have three female friends who like the Stooges. My brother also has knows several women who enjoy their movies. Also, we both know men who think the Stooges are idiotic and unfunny. For the record, he likes them and I think they are boring. But then, I don’t watch many movies anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/3 "2001-09-29T20:52:40Z")
I hate them but that’s just my humble opinion. 😃 ~Kittie By the way I’m a girl… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/4 "2001-09-29T21:04:01Z")
I am male and I find them idiotic and unfunny. So the “indisputable fact” pretty much fails all around. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/5 "2001-09-29T21:09:58Z")
My Three Stooges gene is recessive. I can only handle them in small doses. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/6 "2001-09-29T21:37:55Z")
I’m male, and I’ve never been terribly impressed by the Stooges. Hell, they didn’t even write their own material. Laurel and Hardy, now… That’s comedy. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/7 "2001-09-29T21:42:32Z")
My best friend (female) loves them. I (female as well) think they’re damn doofy. So instead, we watch Monty Python. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/8 "2001-09-29T21:55:41Z")
Mrs. Dave-Guy can appreciate them, and recognize their humor on an intellectual level. Not that their comedy is intellectual, I mean she can understand why some people would think they were funny, even if she doesn’t particularly like them. Still, every once in a while, she does get tickled by them. Not as much as I and our son, Halford the Human Eel, do. He just cracks up over them. Then again, he’s eight. Now for real comedy, the Marx Brothers top the list. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/9 "2001-09-29T22:55:14Z")
I have never liked them. But my daughter thinks they’re hysterical. Of course, I also find her taste in music questionable. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/10 "2001-09-30T04:33:51Z")
[flouncy female voice] What’s so funny? It’s just a bunch of guys hitting each other. [/flouncy female voice] I have run into very few women who liked the Stooges. For the most part though, the above is the stock response. An appreciation of vaudeville and silent movies is requisite for a full comprehension of the Stooge’s pratfalls and zaniness. ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/11 "2001-09-30T04:38:23Z")
I think that they’re hilarious. And, yes, I am a girl. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/12 "2001-09-30T05:37:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Are women biologically incapable of appreciating the Three Stooges? Yes, and gay men are too. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/13 "2001-09-30T06:01:05Z")
Of course girls are capable of appreciating the Stooges. I love the Stooges. All three of them- Iggy, Ron, Scott… You say somebody named a comedy team after them? bete"i wanna be you dog"noir ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/14 "2001-09-30T11:03:54Z")
Male checking in, can’t stand them! ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/15 "2001-09-30T11:55:15Z")
Maybe five year old males appreciate them, I do not. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/16 "2001-09-30T15:55:10Z")
I liked them until I went through puberty and since then I can’t figure out what’s supposed to be so funny. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/17 "2001-09-30T17:11:17Z")
I love 'em! Always have, always will. My second oldest son and I go nuts when they have the Stooge-a-thons on Saturdays. We’ll watch hour upon hour of them. And yes, I’m a female. ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/18 "2001-10-01T01:21:20Z")
Who’s “Shemp”? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/19 "2001-10-01T13:16:05Z")
On an old Dr. Katz episode, one patient says, “I know why women don’t like the Three Stooges. They’re not funny.” I agree. Never found them funny in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510/20 "2001-10-01T13:21:31Z")
One of my best friends in the world, Amanda, thinks they’re damn near gut-busters. I think they’re okay. I can watch them if there’s nothing else on (and I mean NOTHING else on. Like it’s a toss-up between the Stooges and the Preview Channel. I’d watch the Home Shopping Network first). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-biologically-incapable-of-appreciating-the-three-stooges/84510.md?page=2)