It IS Possible To Be Female And Funny

[THP]

I think it's standard practice nowadays, when you've got a column to write on that fearsome topic of 'Funny Women', to turn immediately to Christopher Hitchens' handy straw-man of a Vanity Fair article, 2007's'Why Women Aren't Funny', and his video follow-up, 'Why Women Still Aren't Funny'.It's probably best if I don't go down that route (I know, I know, I just did...). Partly because the article now reads very much like the Hitch getting the cogs of outrage turning like a grandmaster wind-up merchant. But mostly because we just don't need earnest, humourless articles written by outraged female journalists trying to prove that women are, as it turns out, funny; in fact, it's pretty counter-productive to do so for obvious reasons.More...