Women are funny but in a different way. Black humor and pranks are more for guys but some can appeal to the ladies. Matter of fact women like nasty (as in black humor) catty putdowns and observations of other women...Not all the time. Just sometimes
Movies— What do you think of the “Hunger Games” with a female heroine? I won’t see it but it had an enormous female audience.
I come from a family of male comedy writers in Hollywood. They have always been extremely dismissive of women in comedy. Someone very close to me doesn’t even think Lucille Ball is funny! While I wouldn’t go that far, as someone raised to love comedy, it always amazes me how women have no appreciation of the great comedians of the 20th century. It just compounds my feelings that women need to be raised to be funny and see humor in situations. But they are not. They are raised to be decorous and in good taste. Good taste = unfunny.