Come up Quote by Chelsea Peretti

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your…

— Chelsea Peretti

I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by…

— Abbi Jacobson

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

— Jim Breuer

I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say that it's…

— Lindy West

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

— Ali Wong

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits…

— John Cleese

Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great strong role.…

— Natasia Demetriou

There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be…

— Tina Fey

I think that all those women that I look up to so much just ground their comedy in realism and don't try to make…

— Molly Gordon

I'm always dying to do more comedic parts, I love it when I get to do something really overblown like Crazy, Stupid, Love that…

— Marisa Tomei

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

— Nicole Byer