Funny in Love (2011)

In some ways, Funny in Love is a simple love letter to the Modern Man and Woman, who have been struggling to find comfortable identities in relationship politics since the sexual revolution of the 60s. But it's also a tribute to the Female Goofball: either the girl in your office who can tell a dirty joke with the best of them, or the rare comedienne who breaks through the historically male-dominated world of professional comedy. To be a funny woman is to be a smart woman, and as Christopher Hitchens posits in his incendiary Vanity Fair essay, Why Women Aren't Funny, "Men do not want women to be funny. They want them as an audience, not as rivals...For men, it is a tragedy that the two things they prize the most-women and humor-should be so antithetical." With that observation setting the tone for the current culture of dating, our heroine Julie tries to find a place in romance where her wits and her sexuality aren't mutually exclusive qualities, and a funny lady can also be a sexy one.