Humour is a means of negotiating for power positions in conversations. In conversations on TV,these negotiations reach a large audience. The aim of this study is to investigate how power positionsand gender are negotiated for through the use of humour by female and male sport punditsand commentators. How does the host interact with the sport pundits in a comical discourse? Whatresponse do sport pundits receive when interacting in a comical discourse? In my analysis, I investigateto what extent social closeness and distance affect both the outcome of how humour isgenerated and which power positions are achieved. The method employed in this article is discourseanalysis in combination with conversation analysis, and the material comes from the WorldChampionship in cross-country skiing 2017, broadcast on Swedish public service TV (SVT). Theresults show that humour gives somewhat different outcomes between different interlocutorsdepending on gender. The male expert and commentators achieve powerful positions and socialcloseness in the comical discourse when interacting with the host. The female expert is not able toachieve powerful positions in the same way, due to the different responses she receives in thecomical discourse. This also creates a social distance between her and the others. The asymmetryin how different interlocutors are treated is also a part of how notions of gender are (re)producedin a comical discourse.