Anyone Quote by Margaret Cho

It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.

— Kristen Schaal

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that…

— Audrey Tautou

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

I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't…

— Tatiana Maslany

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

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

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

— Margaret Cho

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

— Ali Wong

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

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