Why women are not funny

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

There you go again, subtly suggesting the rest of us are beneath you. Why, Sky, why?

subtly


''If you can't make a woman laugh, you wont get laid''

Definately not Hitchens best work. So many of my crushes fell for boring humorless attractive men and I was left doing solo stand-ups that I just want to dig him out and hit him in the face

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

There you go again, subtly suggesting the rest of us are beneath you. Why, Sky, why?

Since the joke made is not by me but Hitchens, your implication targets thew wrong guy. If it were like you say then I implied that the rest of you is n ot beneath me, but Hitchens.


But now its really becoming absurd, eh? "Humor für Fortgeschrittene" - humour for the advanced - is not necessarily a German idiom that everybody uses, but it is used not rarely and not by few people nevertheless to indicate there is a humpour in a joke that maybe is not totally obvious to perceive and thus needs a little knowledge about something, or some brainwork done to get two loose ends tied together. Or it indicates that the sarcasm in a joke's point is especially grim. The phrase actually is funny in itself.

Wanting to show by this video that Hitchens was mocking Jews and lesbians, is hilarious, when you know Hitchens a bit - he had gay friends in his close social circle, namels gay actor Stephen Fry, and he defended him and gays in general with his wellknown determination and ferocity in public, in speeches, in interviews. Nor did Hitchens hold a derogatory attitude towards women. But in that video he made fun by acting as if he were that antisemitic, chauvinistic racist piece of crap for sure, and he did so with a bitterly serious face (with sometimes a hint of a desperately supressed grin flying over his lips if you look carefully), which already was hilarious in itself if you know Hitchens a bit both by what he used to say, and evenly important: how he said and wrote things, and it then culiminated in his "explanation" of how things turned out to be the way he planned them to be from all beginning on: that now the girls wear less, care less for manners, and try harder to amuse him.

You want to see the big bad wolf - and he gives you one to see. Considering the comments and how theyx completely miss the point, it seems the wolf Hitchens set up was very big and bad indeed! I admit somtimes I do like that myself in the forum and act as the unscrupulous bad guy that some people depict me as.

Humour for the advanced, and the ball played over several cushions.

I have not only seen some Hitchens viudeos on youtube, I mainly base in my view og him on the two only books by him that are available in German - God is not great; and his biograophy - and in English his book on Thomas Jefferson.

Hitchens - a chauvinist supressing women? A gay hater, and anti-semite?

Oh the irony in that!

[Schroeder]

Ok, so some back gound knowledge about him was necessary to understand that. This was my first "contact" with this guy so I didn't know anything about him and therefore couldn't know that he was not meaning what he actually said.

Since the joke made is not by me but Hitchens, your implication targets thew wrong guy.

No, since the comments are about what you have said, I know such a concept may be beyond such a superior mind but it is very simple.

Hitchens - a chauvinist supressing women? A gay hater, and anti-semite?

Oh the irony in that!

The irony is that you cannot see the epic fail in his polemic attempt
You had better stick to dinner for one.

This was my first "contact" with this guy so I didn't know anything about him and therefore couldn't know that he was not meaning what he actually said.

Really?
you should view more of his efforts as he does some very good stuff, but as was said earlier this is one of his crap episodes.

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Well. I never had a single laugh for Fawlty Towers and stopped watching it soon due to boredom, I could not connect it in any way to the humour the same makers showed in Monthy Python episodes, so... c'est la vie...

C'mon Fawlty Towers (when you watched it in the English Original) makes me laugh my arse off every time i watch it.

One of the most epic scenes is this one (i dying of laughter everytime):

One of the most epic scenes is this one (i dying of laughter everytime):

But there are no exploding cars you simpleton