Joey Soloway Quotes

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?'

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.

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

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

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.

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

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.

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

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.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

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

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

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

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.

I don't like any female comedians.

Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.