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Chicago eked out first place over Boston as the most funny of the 50 biggest US cities.



Why are the all the unfunny cities in the south - excessive heat, lack of snow, education levels? What's your theory.

The list according to a couple humor scholars:

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Being broke and/or old ain't funny.

Edited, Apr 24th 2014 3:15pm by Uglysasquatch

I see they use all sorts of weirdo metrics but I'm not surprised. The number of Second City alumni alone out in the wild is pretty ridiculous. Although the article states that Colbert started with Second City but I think he actually got started with Lookingglass. Or maybe he did both -- I'm no expert I just remember hearing "unlike many others who started with Second City..." when he was announced to replace Letterman.

Arguably, people don't normally consider anything west of Texas at all.

I have no idea why Atlanta is so high.

The South +1 will rise again!

How about Arkansas and Kentucky?

The top "funny" cities also lead the nation in gang violence and murder. Guess nothing says funny like gangs, violence and murder.

Did they change the spelling of Flint and Detroit, Michigan again?

Without Gbaji it would probably be a good 10 spots higher up in the list.

Self depreciating jokes?

Deprecating, you mean. And they can never be self deprecating enough.

So this part was written by you?



So that "no", should be a "yes"? Or did I miss where in the original source they mentioned that the least funny cities in the list were all "in the south"? It would not be the first time.



Which, as I mentioned earlier, is not normally what people are referring to when they say something is "in the south", or "from the south". They're usually referring to the states that formed the Confederate States during the Civil war and/or those state which were Slave States and/or south of the Mason-Dixon line (and East of the Mississippi).



You said "the south", which usually carries a very specific connotation. Coupled with a topic that spoke to culture and attitude, that connotation is strengthened. But you applied it to locations that don't match up at all. I just found it strange. If you weren't talking about "the south" in a social kind of way, but really were just talking about latitude, then what exactly was the point you were making? What's the relevance?

Lol! Why didn't you link to that in the first place (or, I suppose I could read your entire post. doh!)? I was confused because I didn't see that comment anywhere on the link you provided, but you included it in the quote in your post. Now it all makes sense. I will properly direct my ire at them now.

Edited, Apr 25th 2014 7:19pm by gbaji