言语幽默是一种极为普通又极其特别的语言现象。然而,将性别和言语幽默结合起来在语用学的框架下研究性别与幽默的关系是近年来兴起的。文章以言语行为中的语用策略为理论依据,将美国最受欢迎的情景喜剧《老友记》作为个案研究对象,从语用策略角度探讨了性别对幽默话语的影响。 Verbal humor is a very common and extremely special language phenomenon. However, the combination of gender and verbal humor in the framework of pragmatics to study the relationship between gender and humor has arisen in recent years. Taking the pragmatic strategy in speech act as the theoretical basis, the article takes “Friends”, the most popular sitcom in the United States as a case study object, and discusses the influence of gender on humorous discourse from the perspective of pragmatic strategy.