Matt Walsh Quotes

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.

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.

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

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 didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

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

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

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

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

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.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

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.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

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 don't think women are dumb.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.