Why funny guys get the babes

[Sequoia]

Attention, single dudes: Women want you to make them laugh.

According to new research, women rate funny guys as more intelligent than guys who are not so funny. The research was presented this week at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Brighton, England.

"Over the course of history, women actively look for signs that their man is intelligent, and I believe the ability to actively judge the situation and pull off a joke and make you laugh is an intelligent feat," said Kristofor McCarty, a researcher at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, and author of the study, in an e-mail.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/02/women.funny.men.intelligent/index.html

I must say, I've always preferred guys who made me laugh. Not only that, funny guys usually become quite successful. I read books about some famous people, and the guy says how he was the class clown.