In her poem “Solitude,” Scorpio Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote the famous lines, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.” For our part, we’ll keep company with the comics and find our cures in the form of riotous laughter.
Interested in discovering the funniest zodiac sign, Psychicworld.com, took a peek at the birth charts of the world’s top comedians.
According to their findings, Cancer takes the cake for comedy with an astounding 14% of the funny people falling under the sign of the crab. Sagittarius was number two with an arrow and Taurus and Virgo share the glory of the bronze medal for belly laughs.
On the opposite end of the hilarity scale, Aquarius was ranked as the least funny. Ask an Aquarius why and they’ll invariably tell you most people don’t “really get” their jokes. Chris Rock is a prime example of what happens when the punchline becomes a face slap for an Aquarius.
Astrology helps us make sense of our strengths and struggles and just as it can reveal the most emotional among us, the hottest, the smartest and the most dangerous, so too can it indicate who makes for a natural comedian. Read on to learn more about the signs that top the list for laughable.
Putting to practice the idea of the sad clown, Cancer is ranked as the funniest sign in the zodiac, with such comedic luminaries as Will Ferrell, Gilda Radner, Kevin Hart, Aubrey Plaza, Ricky Gervais, Phyllis Diller and Mindy Kaling born under its stars.
Highly sensitive and deeply observational, Cancer comics are adept at finding humor in their immediate surrounding. As a water sign, they are naturally attune and absorptive, qualities that leave them vulnerable to both injury and inspiration. Almost pathologically effacing, crabs are quick to make themselves the punchline.
There’s a dark “say it about yourself before they can say it about you” vibe to crabs that is emotionally destabilizing to them and downright hilarious to everyone else. Interestingly, not only is Cancer ranked as the funniest sign, a disproportionate amount of famous comedians have their moon in this water sign, including Kaling who is a double Cancer.
Cancer rules the stomach and is thus the natural domain of belly laughs.
Cancer comedian, the late, great, Robin Williams perfectly surmised his signs approach to comedy when he was interviewed by journalist Jessica Gelt on the set of his last show, “The Crazy Ones,” in 2014.
“For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all,” Williams explained. “It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I’m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it’s hardest to see.”
Cancer is a sign that take things personally and feel things deeply and their greatest defense strategy is transforming the wounds of their soul into comedic, collective gold. .
A mutable fire sign symbolized by a centaur with a bow and arrow, Sagittarius is the first sign to shoot off at the mouth. These people will absolutely say anything, to anyone at any time, which makes them dicey dinner company and brilliant comedians.
Terminally curious and unencumbered by taboo they are always on the hunt for information they can turn into anecdotes and experiences they can mine for laughs.
Naturally optimistic, archers bounce back quickly and with gusto when their jokes fall flat or flat out offend.
Famous Sagittarius comedians include Billy Connolly, Jammie Foxx, Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman and Margaret Cho.
Provocative but not necessarily mean spirited, natives seek to push their own boundaries while edging others towards their brinks, and in the case of comedic genius and unrepentant Sag Richard Pryor, urge society towards a slow reckoning.
Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, planet of expansion and through his fearless willingness to go deep, dark and beyond, Pryor broadened the confines of comedy and elevated the role of the comedian to cultural critic.
Defiant and deliberate, the stalwart nature of Taurus finds a happy home in the green pastures of comedy.
As an earth sign, there is a practical energy to Taurus and their brand of humor is often rooted in what they believe to be the nonsensical practices of the world around them and the humans that inhabit it.
Notable Taurean comics include George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey, Bob Saget, Stephen Colbert and Carol Burnett.
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True to the nature preferring, human eschewing vibe of Taurus, Carlin famously espoused, “We’re so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding?”
He continued: “Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re gonna save the f****n’ planet? And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are f***ed!”
They don’t call it a raging bull for nothing folks and whether taking a stand against savior complexes or the tyranny of obscenity, Taurus is down to go hard and loud.
There is no sign more versed in the art of perception and judgement than Virgo.
These folks can’t help but see what others cannot and at their highest expression they are able to take these observations and spin them into cutting comedy.
Ruled by Mercury, Virgos understand timing and because they are laboriously self-punishing their funny is heavily edited, they don’t say a lot but when they do, it’s unexpected and memorable.
Notable Virgo comics include Dave Chapelle, Adam Sandler, Kat Williams. Amy Poehler, Chris Tucker, Melissa McCarthy and Nicole Byer.
Virgos nurse the old familiar wound that they aren’t enough and in turn, their comedy feels authentically self-deprecating. Suspicious of praise and driven to be of service to others, they take laughter seriously.
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Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. She is also an accomplished writer who has profiled a variety of artists and performers, as well as extensively chronicled her experiences while traveling. Among the many intriguing topics she has tackled are cemetery etiquette, her love for dive bars, Cuban Airbnbs, a “girls guide” to strip clubs and the “weirdest” foods available abroad.
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