"In my experience, women, generally speaking, have better senses of humor than men. The female members of my family, including me, laugh much more than the male members of the brood."
Suppose the men in your family are intelligent. Have you considered the possibility that the women in your family aren't funny to them, and that this is why the men aren't laughing? Laughing more often doesn't necessarily mean funny, and you can't judge the quality of a comedian by how often they get a laugh. Good comedians will make people laugh often but they will also use intelligent humor. Frequent laughter is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient condition for being a good comic. Dimwits who enjoy shit comedy like Kevin Hart, Dane Cook, etc will laugh a lot too, but the quality of those comedians is very poor. A lot of men judge comedy by the intelligence it evinces. It could be that the females in your family are Dane Cooks and the males aren't laughing because they're Louis C.K.s.
"So, we know that there is not something intrinsically unfunny about women. The question, therefore, becomes not ‘can women by funny?’ but ‘why do funny women not feel the need to make it a career?’ This, to my mind, is a much more intriguing query in terms of both psychology (of women and men) and sociology."
Christopher Hitchens has a great video on YouTube about women and being funny, you may find it interesting since he touches on the psychology and sociology of comedy and the need to be funny. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7izJggqCoA
