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[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I never get from nonsensical and stupid to funny. I go straight to irritated instead.

I'm with you on that. And the long, increasingly awkwardly long hold at the end, followed by another one has been used all over the place for the last five years. It just doesn't feel that funny any more.

But then I've never found drag itself to be inherently funny. I've seen funny people in drag but the fact of a man or women dressed like the opposite sex is not in itself funny to me.

I suspect that is a large part of why Monty Python and Kids in the Hall never really click with me (yes, they're both funny sometimes just not consistently). A lot of it seems to only be funny because it is a man dressed as a woman doing it. If they used an actual woman doing the exact same thing, I don't think many people would find it funny.

As for women as men. Slate recently had an article on the underground drag king scene in D.C. I didn't find that interesting or amusing either.