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,