Nicole Byer Quotes

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

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

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

It’s crazy. Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women... f**king idiot-ass men keep saying that women aren't funny. It makes me crazy. I find it disgusting and offensive every time.

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

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

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

I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

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 had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.

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

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 a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

When I first started doing press interviews, the big question was, 'Do you think women are funny?' People would ask you that in an interview. In an interview! It's like, of course they are.

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

I think there's still a feeling within society, entertainment aside, that women are less funny than men.

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

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

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

Women have been funny for years.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

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.

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

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