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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout…

— Mark Waters

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

— Nipsey Russell

Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all out in…

— Elvis Mitchell

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I…

— Billy Wilder

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and…

— Eileen Brennan

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

— Michael Schur

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

— Kristen Wiig

I think people were just seriously happy to find a funny woman who does comedy like a man. Because I learned how to do…

— Lisa Lampanelli

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn…

— Billy Wilder

My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say…

— Lea DeLaria

If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.

— Tom Green

Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.

— Lauren Lapkus