The evidence is pretty compelling. Knockout movie star Jennifer Aniston is dating big galoot Vince Vaughn. Television star Heather Locklear is seeing dorky David Spade. Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy is apparently an item with knockabout funnyman Jim Carrey. And now there is word that Spider-Man sweetheart Kirsten Dunst is sweet on "Saturday Night Live" comic Andy Samberg.Great moments in the lack of empirical evidence.
In every case the attraction seems to be the same. When a news service reporter asked a friend of Dunst's what she sees in Samberg, the reply could have worked for any of the beauty-and-the- geek relationships -- "She just thinks he's funny."
Do you see what is happening here? If not, let's let Julie Lynch, vice president for alliances for TalkPlus in Menlo Park, spell it out for you.
"Funny," Lynch says, "is the new sexy."
Can that really be true? After all those years of hearing that it really doesn't matter what you look like, that a great personality and a quick wit are what the hotties are looking for? Evidently.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Women's taste in men increasingly is funny
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
