Character Quote by Allison Silverman

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I…

— Whitney Cummings

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender…

— Kristen Schaal

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts…

— Teri Garr

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often,…

— Michaela Coel

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground…

— Liza Donnelly

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Comedy has so much to do with honesty, and women can be more open about their emotions.

— Ali Wong

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe…

— Margaret Cho

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing…

— Agnes Varda