Comedy Equality Quotes

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

I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are.

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

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.

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

I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.