Equality Quote by Allison Pearson

Comedy is a man's art form. It pretty much came from a time, post-World War II really - the 1950s are not really known…

— Hannah Gadsby

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during…

— Grace Slick

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We…

— Bob Newhart

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited…

— Edmund Wilson

When I started watching comedy there was a lot of negativity about women; a lot of comics were spewing out aggressive, violent and negative…

— Sara Pascoe

Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to…

— Patrick Stewart

In the early days - especially in a male-dominated industry like comedy - I felt a lot of shame. We're made to feel less…

— Esther Povitsky

“Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life.”

— Tina Fey

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

— Terence Winter

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

— Paul Feig

In the '50s and '60s, there were socially relevant films and then in the '80s, we went into an anti-establishment kind of a thing.…

— Mohnish Bahl

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

— Rachel Bloom