Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

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.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

The life of a true, traditional stand-up is really unappealing for women.

You know what male comics can't do? They can't get pregnant. They can't perform pregnant. So my attitude is, just use all those differences.

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

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

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

After 'Wedding Crashers' I was just surprised as to the lack of comedic female material there is. So I had to start working and getting stuff out there for myself.

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

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. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.