Why can't we girls laugh a man into bed?

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Not fussy: Music sensation Adele has said that the most important quality she is looking for in a man is a good sense of humourAdele, the British singer who belts out ballads about love, is looking for a man. Shes young, good looking, a multi-millionairess and one of the most successful female recording artists in the world today.
Given all this she can afford to be a bit fussy. But, refreshingly, she isnt. The man she wants to share her life with can be short, fat, a bit dim and no oil painting. Her only non-negotiable criterion is that he must be funny.
Its a sentiment single women everywhere be they 21 or 91 will identify with. Ask any unattached female what one attribute she must have in a future partner and shes guaranteed to say that he has to have a good sense of humour.Looks fade, weight fluctuates, fortunes can be made and lost, but the one thing that will never materialise, if it isnt there in the first place, is a cracking sense of humour. God knows life can be miserable enough, but the very idea of going home, after a long day at work, to a joyless dullard is enough to make you slit your wrists.
With so many women looking for a man who can offer them nothing more than a few laughs youd think theyd be spoilt for choice. Unfortunately not in fact it just highlights yet another glaring difference between the sexes because while women want a partner who will make them chuckle, men dont.

I can tell a funny story, make an amusing quip and deliver a few witty one-liners and I have a feeling that has been my downfall

In fact, if you asked the majority of single males what they looked for in the opposite sex the ability to make him laugh would probably be way down the list, ranking somewhere below being able to milk a cow and juggle with watermelons.
While its true that a witty man (even one who looks a bit ropey)! wont go short of female company, the complete opposite is true for funny girls.
I like to think Ive made a few people chuckle in my time and Ive certainly got some wickedly funny single friends who have all noticed the same thing: a funny man can laugh a woman into bed, but a funny woman will laugh a man straight out of the door, never to be heard of again.Just to be clear, when I talk about being a funny woman, I dont mean juvenile or annoying. I dont go around hiding whoopee cushions, putting salt in peoples tea and cracking knock-knock jokes. Id find that highly irritating too. I mean that I can tell a funny story, make an amusing quip and deliver a few witty one-liners and I have a feeling that has been my downfall.

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Modern man has just about made his peace with the fact that todays woman is capable of earning more money than him, may well have a nicer apartment and drive a flashier car, but what he cannot forgive is that she might be more amusing.
He needs to be the funny one and all he requires from his girlfriend is for her to giggle loyally at his jokes. For most men, being funny, along with mowing the lawn and lighting the barbecue, falls firmly within their domain.Several years ago, when I was internet dating, I became convinced that even if I confessed to mugging old ladies and torturing small animals, most men would be prepared to overlook it if they were interested, or desperate, enough.

But I lost count of the number of times I went on dates that had gone brilliantly well but never led to anything further. And, no, I wasnt kidding myself. I know the difference between somebody whos having a good time and somebody bored to tears.

A woman who makes a man laugh is not necessarily viewed as a life partner Wed end the evening with the man invariably telling me that was the most fun hed had in ages. And then Id never hear from him again. It happened too many times for it to be a coincidence and I wasnt alone.
One of my closest friends, Isabel, has the sort of dry, Northern wit that sitcom writers would give their eye teeth for. Shes also petite, pretty and highly intelligent, but finds that men ditch her after one or two dates.It took a mutual male friend to point out that our sense of humour was most probably the reason we were both still on the shelf. Men arent into funny birds, he told us both. Theyve got their mates for that. Its not what they look for in a woman.Apparently they like women to be all right looking, not too clingy, not too mad and not a nag. But surely even if they didnt actively seek it, a woman who was a rollicking good laugh would be a bonus when she came along? It would seem not.
In order to prove the theory (but secretly hoping to disprove it) Isabel and I agreed that on our next internet dates we would smile sweetly, flick our hair and laugh like drains at anything the man said that was even vaguely amusing. We also made a pact to not crack a single joke of our own or make any off-the-cuff quips.
Although we came away having had evenings that were about as thrilling as cutting our toenails, the men stayed in touch. So we decided that if we got as far as a third date we would unleash our sense of humour on them.We would also only laugh at something they said if it was genuinely funny.
As luck would have it Id recently returned from a singles holiday which Id been sent on as an assignment for this newspaper.
I spent a week with every kind of oddball and misfit you could think of and regaled my date, Mike, with tales of John the man who counted his steps as he walked and Jerry who shook my hand and then wiped his own with an antiseptic wipe in front of me. Mike laughed hear! tily at my tale.
Then he told his own about a rugby club party where lots of drunken de-bagging (pulling down someones trousers) went on. I found it tedious so I didnt laugh. Later he asked me if Id heard a joke about an Essex Girl at a supermarket. I hadnt, but I saw the punchline coming a mile off and couldnt have raised a cackle if Id tried.
Sure enough, the day after my experimental third date, I received a text saying that on second thoughts I dont think were right for one another. Meanwhile, Isabels suitor, who had previously been hinting about a night at a hotel, cut the evening short and never made contact again.
So, there we have it. Despite the fact that every single man since the dawn of time will claim to have a GSOH (Good Sense of Humour), as far as hes concerned his future wife can have the spark and wit of a smoked kipper. It simply makes no difference to him.
This knowledge made me realise something rather disturbing about my funny male friends.
They all have something other than their sense of humour in common the women theyve set up home with are all perfectly pleasant but dull as ditchwater.
But their husbands and boyfriends arent bothered theyve got me to make them laugh. While it seems to be true that men wont be making any marriage proposals to funny women, they will deign to be friends with them although thats probably just so they can nick their material and pass it off as their own.I wish Adele luck in her search for love, but if she can tell a joke half as well as she can sing, she shouldnt hold her breath.