THE 100 MOST POINTLESS ARGUMENTS IN THE WORLD.

ARE WOMEN FUNNY?

This is one of the simplest arguments in the book, and the actual answer need not detain us. Women are definitely funny.

But I’ve included ‘Are Women Funny?’ because it is a very useful debate. It is one of those simple tests of whether you’re going to like someone or not.

Say you have just started working at a new office. You are finding your way, getting to know everyone. There is guy who works in marketing and he’s kind of cute (he needs a haircut, but that’s easily fixed) and you’re starting to wonder if you should accidentally bump into him as he makes his morning cup of tea.

You then overhear him telling Gail from HR that ‘women aren’t funny’. Hooray! He’s an idiot! You never have to think about him again. Now, I bet that new temp with glasses knows that women are funny.

I have always been surrounded by funny women. Brought up by a family of them, dated them, employed them, been employed by them. I’m now the father of one of them too. I’m sure most of you are the same. Some of you might even be funny women.

So, if you think women aren’t funny I have bad news for you. They really are.

If women are never funny when you’re in the room, then it is almost certainly because, for some unexplained reason, funny women feel uncomfortable around you.

Which is why you’re at your desk talking about triathlons to Dave, while that new temp with glasses is laughing his head off with Sally in Pizza Express