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There is a tendency for works, particularly older works and works aimed at young men, to treat homosexual relationships as being ''inherently'' funny. Obviously, gay people and gay relationships can be funny for lots of reasons—for example, if the characters are incredibly mismatched, or if the behaviour of one character is amusingly ~~offputting~~, so this doesn't just apply to any humour derived from gayness or from gay relationships, only when the punchline is ''that'' it is gay. Litmus test—if this was heterosexual, would it be (roughly, if not quite) as funny? If not, it's this trope.

There is a tendency for works, particularly older works and works aimed at young men, to treat homosexual relationships as being ''inherently'' funny. Obviously, gay people and gay relationships can be funny for lots of reasons—for example, if the characters are incredibly mismatched, or if the behaviour of one character is amusingly off-putting, so this doesn't just apply to any humour derived from gayness or from gay relationships, only when the punchline is ''that'' it is gay. Litmus test—if this was heterosexual, would it be (roughly, if not quite) as funny? If not, it's this trope.

Subtropes include [[Gay Bravado]]. Begets the humorous parts in [[Ambiguously Gay]], [[Mistaken for Gay]], [[Ho Yay]].

{{noreallife|this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media.}}