Think women aren't funny? You clearly don't know many

Saying that women can't be funny is a little like saying men can’t wear pink. Absurd, ignorant, and so outrageously sexist the words shouldn't even be spoken without an accompanying admission of one’s wild stupidity.

- Olivia Petter, The Independent

It’s also just wrong, which you'd think goes without saying. Andyet, the opposite conclusion was drawn following a new study conducted by YouGov. Asked whether men or women tend to be funnier, the 5,075 people surveyed largely agreed there was no difference, with 62 percent saying as such. But don't let that be a reassuring sign of our so-called progressive modern times: one in four (24 per cent) said that in general, men tend to be funnier. And a staggeringly low number amounting to less than one in IO (eight per cent) people said that women tend to be funnier. Splitting the results by gender was just as bleak: just four per cent of the men surveyed said women were funnier, while Il per cent of women said the same.