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" You would be amazed at how many of my hilarious jokes get cut out of every &amp;quot;Whys Guy&amp;quot; column. Each month, I&amp;#039;m shocked to discover which of my bon mots (that&amp;#039;s French, y&amp;#039;all!) won&amp;#039;t quite work for my mostly female audience, according to my red-pen-wielding editors. To be fair, my comedic repertoire skews toward the trucker/prison-inmate demographic, but plenty of women have laughed at my jokes, and they couldn&amp;#039;t all have been humoring me. That must mean that some of you appreciate a good hairy-__________(too juvenile, Aaron)-on-a-pizza joke. To settle this debate, I thought I&amp;#039;d give you a quick taste of the kinds of humor that my editors keep from you. My hope is that you will flood REDBOOK&amp;#039;s offices with letters demanding more swollen ___________(too graphic). Or, if not, that you will at least gain a deeper appreciation for the jokes your guy tells that you wish you could edit. Physical comedy: From the Three Stooges to Jackass, watching people unintentionally (or very intentionally) injure themselves or their friends and relations is high comedy. If balls are involved, it&amp;#039;s even more amusing. A woman I know can&amp;#039;t understand why her husband&amp;#039;s guy friends crack up every time her 4-year-old son punches his father in the crotch and yells, &amp;quot;I got him!&amp;quot; That simple act is the reason America&amp;#039;s Funniest Home Videos has been on TV since 1862. Now, personally, I would be very angry if my son kept punching me in the nuts. But as long as it&amp;#039;s not my son or my nuts, I&amp;#039;m perfectly willing to have good laugh at the other guy&amp;#039;s expense, because I&amp;#039;ve been there, and I&amp;#039;m just delighted that it&amp;#039;s not me writhing around on the ground pleading with a higher power to make the aching stop. Sexual humor: Guys are really insecure about sex, so we compensate by joking about it. Whether it&amp;#039;s stories of ED, mid-coital flatulence, or terrible timing, men find comfort in making fun of themselves. The website Deadspin has a popular feature called &amp;quot;Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure,&amp;quot; where mostly male readers vent their most embarrassing sexual misfires. It&amp;#039;s cathartic and seems to take the humiliation down a notch. I often wonder: If I had told the world about the time I accidentally took a prescription-strength laxative because I thought it was Viagra, would that have made the experience less emotionally scarring? Gallows humor: I don&amp;#039;t know if you&amp;#039;ve ever hung out with EMTs, cops, doctors, or soldiers, but the jokes can get pretty dark pretty quickly, and maybe that&amp;#039;s not such a bad thing. Humor is a defense mechanism that allows those people to do those hard, dangerous jobs. Death, trauma, illness--they touch us all eventually. Some guys just can&amp;#039;t begin the healing process (or, in some cases, even comprehend what&amp;#039;s happened) until they can laugh about whatever tragedy has taken place. If you can make a joke about something bad, then you can survive that something. Bathroom humor: We&amp;#039;ve tried for centuries to explain why this category is so funny (because going to the bathroom is gross and shocking, and everyone does it and nobody talks about it), but it doesn&amp;#039;t work--you ladies aren&amp;#039;t coming along for the ride. There is a great scene in Shakespeare&amp;#039;s Two Gentlemen of Verona where Launce&amp;#039;s dog pees on a woman&amp;#039;s skirt and he claims responsibility so the dog won&amp;#039;t be punished. It&amp;#039;s very funny. (My parents were English teachers.) My point is, if Shakespeare couldn&amp;#039;t convince you to laugh at potty humor, what chance do I have? Ripping on each other: Maybe you think it&amp;#039;s weird when guy friends mercilessly make fun of one another. But have you ever watched sweet, cuddly kittens wrestle and nibble on each other&amp;#039;s ears and swat at each other&amp;#039;s itty-bitty widdle faces with their sharp but tiny claws? It&amp;#039;s adorable, but it&amp;#039;s also a valuable developmental tool for the kittens (I&amp;#039;m gittin&amp;#039; scientific, y&amp;#039;all!): Those playful tussles teach them how to hunt and survive. Men are like big ugly kittens. We start swiping at one another early on to develop self-defense and, if necessary, attack skills. If my closest guy friends hadn&amp;#039;t been making fun of my hairy belly, B.O., and hammer toes since junior high, I might have been thrown off my game, or truly hurt, when I was single and a prospective girlfriend shot me down for one of those very traits. As it is, my friends&amp;#039; cruelty, and the cruelty I have revisited on them a thousandfold, protected my self-esteem until I managed to land a wonderful woman who appreciates a hairy belly. So now that I&amp;#039;ve explained why they&amp;#039;re so hilarious, don&amp;#039;t you guys want more scatological, raunchy jokes about tragedies in your lives? Just think of the fun you and your partner could have bonding over a story about how my friend was on the Megabus to Dover, DE, when he experienced a horrible pain in his ___________(too gross!)edit space. Crazy, right? Remember to let REDBOOK know you want more of this kind of humor. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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