At the risk of being sexist....

[simon_says]

How many dumb blondes does it take to make chocolate-chip cookies? p.s. anyone out there in ABland think there should be a ( good, clean ) joke section?

[WaldoMcFroog]

Well personally, I suspect that any joke which apologises for potential sexism and relies on lazy stereotypes about women (i.e. blonde=dumb) is hardly likely to be either good and/or clean.

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Having run a successful stand up comedy club for many years, I know it's very possible to have people in side-splitting hysterics without resorting to lazy and degrading material (sexist, homophobic or racist). Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson and the like are hopeless dinosaurs waiting for their final extinction. Hope it comes soon. There's more and funnier comedy out there.

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Simon - I appreciate you probably don't deserve such a lambasting on the basis of your question but it's one of my pet frustrations as a club owner. I hope you'll forgive me for unleashing my vitriol against bad comedy within your question.

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By the way, there's nothing to say a joke has to be clean to be good! :-)

[simon_says]

What's the point? You try and lighten up some people lives with a little piece of, albeit, sexist humour and you get this sort of response.

[andy hughes]

To provide a Joke Section would be to move away from the ethos of The Answerbank, and may lead to further dilution of the Site content - I personally find plenty of humour elsewhere on the Net, I wouldn't excpect to find it on an Info Site like this. Speaking of humour - I didn't understand your joke, so I was not offended, but then again I was not amused either!

[beenee]

Oh lighten up people!!! jeeeeez!

Ok, my answer: 2 - one to buy the chocolate the other to fry the chips... HAhaha...uhhhh.. ok, sorry was quite terrible.

[rekstout]

2 - one to make the cookies and one to ensure that they are politically correct.

Or 2 - one to make the dough and one to peel the M&Ms

[comloulou]

It seems to be used as an excuse for some people to flex their inflated sense of intellectualism so a bit of light hearted banter is an excellent idea. p.s is there an answer to the joke?

[andy hughes]

I'm not sure if Waldo or I, or both, or neither, are being taken to task here, but I'll speak for myself - I love humour, good, bad, sexist, what ever, I simply opined that adding 'sub-sections' to an Information Site is not necessarily a good idea. I didn't wish to appear overly intelectual, or humourless (I think my standard answers would contradict either of those!) but it was just an opinion. I am perfectly lightened up, it being Friday, so hope that clears up my position - over to Waldo (?)

[jjf2003]

Waldo - irony is wasted on you, isn't it? (I take it you know what irony is? It ain't a metal). By the way, Jo Brand (who you probably think is acceptable) tells sexist, anti-male jokes, so how is she any different from Jim Davidson?

[simon_says]

rekstout - good but not quite right ( did I sound like Roy Walker there? ) but your first response was spot on! Punchline is basically the same as rekstout's answer :- 10 - one to make the dough and the other nine to peel the Smarties / M & Ms

[simon_says]

With hindsight I tend to agree with Andy regarding the possibility of a joke section. It would almost definitely lower the tone of what is an excellent website.

[WaldoMcFroog]

jjf2003 - yes, I know what irony is. There wasn't any in Simon's joke. Whether or not one approves of it, there's certainly no irony.

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Jo Brand's jokes were in character - "I'm fat and ugly and no one wants me, therefore I'll be misanthopist". Jo, I am reliably informed, is, in real life a lovely and intelligent (and happily married) woman, but her act was pretty one dimensional and has thus passed it's sell by date. No tears here.

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Davidson is tells racist jokes and beats up women - a matter of public record. The sooner his 'star' fades the better.

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comloulou - my answer to your comment about inflated intellectualism is extremely anti intellectual and only two words long. You can probably guess it. Since when was being intellectual a crime anyway? Better than dumbing down. Aim up not down, I say.

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Simon - I did already acknowledge that my answer had veered into a personal bugbear and that I'd moved away from the question. Imagine, however (hypothetical) if you'd put "here's an hillarious racist gag... etc etc " and then said, "What's the point? You try and lighten up some people lives with a little piece of, albeit, sexist humour and you get this sort of response." when people complained.

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My apologies for having an opinion on something which I deeply and passionately care about.

[WaldoMcFroog]

smudge - for what's it's worth, I ran a club - I have no intention of being a stand up and am not a good joke teller by anyone's standards. If I am being a damp blanket about Davidson and the even more excreble Manning it's purely down to a dislike of lazy sexist, racist comedy. As I said before, there's more and funnier comedy out there.

[Tadd]

There's nothing wrong with feeling deeply or passionately about something but considering we live in a world of international terrorism, genocide, child prostitution, paedophilia, fear of crime I find it difficult to understand why feminism, whether Bernard Manning's funny or not or bra-burning issues rate so highly in certain peoples' minds. Perhaps it's as high or as deep as they can attain.

[Worker]

Waldo - Why jump so readily to the defence of dumb blondes? I'm sure some of them can read and therefore defence themselves.