Comedy Quote by Lindy West

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You…

— Lily Tomlin

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

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

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

I think women have always been funny. But when Tina Fey became head writer at 'Saturday Night Live,' the culture shifted, and women gained…

— Cecily Strong

Women have been funny for years.

— Beth Behrs

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

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 is one of the few places in entertainment at present where it's good for women to be, as no one is telling you…

— Roisin Conaty

Comedy is still sexist. There is still this sense that women can't be trusted to be funny.

— Rebecca Front

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

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