In Christopher Hitchens’ article “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” he attempts and fails to use ethos and logos in order to convince the reader that women are not funny. Hitchen’s uses ethos to enhance his credibility by informing the reader about his time at Stanford University School of Medicine. He participated in a study in which a researcher named Dr.Allen Reiss “showed 10 men and 10 women a sample of 70 black-and-white cartoons and got them to rate the gags on a “funniness scale.” In this experiment, Riess concludes that “women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punch line of the cartoon, so when they got to the joke’s punch line, they were more pleased about it.” He also concludes that “women were quicker at identifying material they considered unfunny.”  Hitchen fails at his attempt to use ethos in order to convince the reader that women aren’t funny because his evidence shows no proof of these facts, instead it shows that women simply have a different sense of humor. Later in the article, Hitchen then attempts to use logos in order to convince the reader of his points by quoting American female author Fran Lebowitz. Lebowitz states, “Men obviously like gross stuff. Why? Because it’s childish.”  According to Hitchens, 90% of all comedy comes from filth and because filth is childish and women bear children they are unable to find the humor in said filth. Once again his point fails to answer the question “why women aren’t funny” and directs the readers’ attention to the difference in sense of humor between genders. Hitchen’s use of ethos and logos to support his argument aren’t effective because the reader never receives a clear fact-based explanation of why women aren’t funny.