Hitchens discusses the reason to why women struggle on being funny. As a man himself he tries to relate emotionally to the male audience by saying comedy is crucial when pleasing a lady. Hitchens states, ” An average man has just one, outside chance: he had better be able to make the lady laugh.” He understands that the male audience is aware of the importance in making a woman laugh in order to attract them to themselves. He also makes an attempt to be relatable as he describes how women are already pleasing to males without the need of comedy. He states, ” Women have no corresponding need to appeal to men in this way. They already appeal to men, if you catch my drift.” This conveys that the body or beauty of a women already wins a man over without feeling the need to make him laugh. Although Hitchens is male he appeals to women when regarding men as childish and only focus on the disgusting parts of comedy. He mentions, ” Men obviously like gross stuff,” says Fran Lebowitz. “Why? Because it’s childish.” The female audience may find this relatable when facing with comedy that is dominantly in the field of men. The feeling that men only laugh at disgusting jokes or at stupidity can resonate with females and they’re opinions on comedy itself.

Hitchens uses reasoning to his article as well when presenting studies of the difference between men and women in the field of comedy. He used a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine, to explain the way men and women perceive comedy in cartoons. He states, ” The researchers found that men and women share much of the same humor-response system…” and also mentions that, ” Slower to get it, more pleased when they do, and swift to locate the unfunny.” The study explains that even though men and women have the same type of interest in comedy they still point the downside of it which makes them seem as the killjoy of comedy. Hitchens also used reason to see if his theories made sense. By doing so, he calls female comedians like Fran Lebowitz and Nora Ephron to discuss the theories. Ms. Fran states, ” “The cultural values are male; for a woman to say a man is funny is the equivalent of a man saying that a woman is pretty. Also, humor is largely aggressive and pre-emptive, and what’s more male than that?” The way men and women attract each other ties again with the need to be comedic especially for males, towards the opposite sex. In society being pretty for women is important to attract guys like it is for them to be funny to girls. Hitchens brings Ephron’s views by saying she agrees with Lebowitz’s on the topic of comedy between men and women. This concludes that women do not have an easy time with comedy as her fellow male partner does.