Quotes About Comedy

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!

I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

I don't date women my age. There aren't any.

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.

Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!