Quotes About Comedy

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.

I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!

I'm Larry David. I happen to enjoy wearing women's panties.

I just think women are funnier than men.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

Women liked me because I made them laugh.