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Now, why don't we have more women as guests on QI, you may well ask? Oh, I know this.
Sorry. So female. No, no, after you. No.
Is it because women are just not funny?
FRY GASPS
Oh! Yeah. That's right, but we're good at other things. We're good at raisin' kittens and knittin' cakes.
I've heard that women aren't funny and I think there's a truth in this.
I think there is a scientific relationship between a sense of humour and the male sex organ.
People are always laughing at mine. There you are.
LAUGHTER
Is this to do with the fact that people say there aren't as many female comedians as there are men?
Because there are loads of female comedians.
We just don't see them because they are systematically rounded up and kept in a pen just outside Harwich.
Harwich? Yes, but you can go and see them and you can adopt them online.
You can visit them and feed them lines and you might get a joke back sometimes.
Sometimes some of them escape and they disguise themselves as male comedians,
but you can tell which ones are male comedians. They have beards, just like Life Of Brian.
Bill Bailey. Phill Jupitus. Clearly a woman(!)
It's really rare to be allowed to sit next to a female comedian.
I don't know if they're worried that our cycles will suddenly synchronise.
I'm in disguise. I'm Rory Bremner.
Is it cos once you get them started, they don't shut up?
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE