Comedy Quote by Sharon Gless

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

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

— Alia Shawkat

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

— Ari Graynor

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

I've talked to a lot of other women in the field of comedy and none of us feel like being a woman has been…

— Samantha Bee

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

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

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

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

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 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

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we…

— Steven Moffat