# The documentary 'women aren't funny'. Is it true or not

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**Created:** [January 26, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-documentary-women-arent-funny-is-it-true-or-not/710956 "2015-01-26T21:59:12Z")\
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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> There are some things you dont joke about as too many morons take you seriously.

If I may point out the obvious, the only person here taking her joke seriously is you :).  
At the same time, there are serious reasons, beyond Twain’s use of the n-word, to level the charge of “racism” against him; look, for example, at his writings about American Indians, starting with Injun Joe.

For me, I can think of a few female stand-up bits that have really impressed me: early Whoopi Goldberg bits were phenomenal, and Sarah Silverman’s bit on The Aristocrats was the funniest and most painful telling of the joke in the movie, and there are a few others. But then, I don’t find most stand-up all that entertaining, with the singular exception of Louis CK, who speaks to me in a way no other stand-up does.

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