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Having The Last Laugh

After playing caustic comedienne Deborah Vance over three hilarious seasons of Hacks, Jean Smart, 72, has learned a few things about what makes us laugh.

“I think women can be funny about different things and men are funny about different things, because we’re different. But why was it funny when Milton Berle put on a dress and it wasn’t funny when Judy Garland did her little baggy pants hobo routine?

I don’t know, I can’t explain it. It just is.

But it doesn’t mean that women aren’t as funny, God knows,” says the five-time Emmy winning actress when WHO chats with her about the upcoming third season of Hacks.

“So until we accept the fact that we all have differences and not try to pretend that we don’t, we’re never gonna get anywhere.

We will never be the same – men and women and different cultures. For instance, stance, why is it sort of

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