Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Kagan was hilarious. I thought her humor demonstrated all sorts of valuable things: that she was entirely at ease, that she was not remotely intimidated, that her intelligence is warm and quick, not chilly and pedantic. Her use of humor was effective without being unpleasant or malicious: _everyone_ could laugh at her quips, once they got past their shock at her daring. She didn't belittle her interrogators, she simply caught them--for crucial, fleeting, triumphant moments-off guard. (I don't know if women are funnier than men, generally speaking--but certainly this particular woman was funnier than those particular men, and willing to prove it.)

and that's good

Those quick witty comebacks are so hard because one's natural reaction is to get angry or defensive. I dont know US politics but those guys sounded like they fully deserved a 'pie in the face'
Humor can be so empowering in situations like this, when you're being put down or treated unfairly, whether you're male or female, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, young, old, black, white, etc. When well done, it creates a complete role reversal.
Humor is very subjective though, so it's hard to say if someone's funnier than another. And suggesting someone's funnier than someone else because they're a certain sex, race or religion or more educated could create new barriers to replace the ones people are trying to break down.
It's interesting though, maybe it's more socially acceptable to laugh at male comics when they're self-deprecating. eg; Rodney Dangerfield.
There was a show from Britain about 10 years ago or more called the Sketch Show which had 2 female comics on it who were absolutely brilliant. The actor who plays Elliot on Scrubs, Sarah Chalke, is an amazing physical comic. Its hard though, again, humor is so subjective.

The Chinese restaurant joke was the ONLY clever or intelligent thing Professor Kagan said in her entire time befor ethe Judiciary Committee.

The rest of the time, she was saying equally hilarious (but in a different way) things, like, "Memo? I wrote a memo? What memo?" Or "What? I expressed an opinion? Really? I don't remember expressing an opinion, and I didn't mean it if I did."

This doesn't prove that women are funnier than men. All it proves is that one woman is funnier than one man.