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Article: Heard the one about the man who says women just can't tell jokes?(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2001
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Byline: JIM MOORE
MEN are better at telling jokes than women - because they have been cracking gags since the Stone Age.
And yes, even then, a lot of them were about sex.
Christie Davies of Reading University, Britain's first "Professor of Jokes", says males have evolved to be better gag-tellers because they needed humour more as cavemen.
"When men were hunter-gatherers, they lived for excitement and surprise. So they told jokes which are all about excitement and surprise.
"Also cavemen were pretty aggressive but they weren't ...