Comedy Quote by Paul Feig

I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while…

— Isla Fisher

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

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

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

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

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

There aren't as many women in my industry in comedy as there should and could and hopefully will be, but it is interesting growing…

— Aisling Bea

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

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women.…

— Mindy Kaling

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

I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an…

— Glenda Jackson