Acting Quote by Patrick Stewart

There's definitely a difference with men and women in comedy. If you wrote a list of the last 20 comedies in the past four…

— Kristen Wiig

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

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

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences.…

— Miranda Hart

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

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

— Rebecca Front

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than…

— Jo Brand

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 am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

— Jenny Eclair

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's…

— Paul Feig

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

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

— Paul Feig