Aggressive Quote by Paul Feig

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to…

— Patrick Stewart

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

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

— Rebecca Front

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

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