Quotes About Female Comedians

#1. 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?

Chelsea Peretti

#2. Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Jorma Taccone

#3. 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.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it.

Rita Rudner

#5. I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.

Ilana Glazer

#6. 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.

Abbi Jacobson

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

Jen Kirkman

#8. I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Rita Rudner

#9. I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

Eliza Coupe

#10. I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Mindy Kaling

#11. Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.

Ashley Greene

#12. You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I think of women stand-ups. If you actually look around, there are so many female comedians starring in the biggest TV shows.

Lilly Singh

#13. Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Harold H. Greene

#14. I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

Whitney Cummings

#15. Photographs shape the past in our own image.

Chloe Thurlow

#16. Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

Andy Weir

#17. Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

Chris Gethard

#18. Smartass is a latent idiot.

Toba Beta

#19. I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

Wendy Liebman

#20. If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

Vidal Sassoon

#21. Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

Paul Watson

#22. The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock--riven by the spear which pierced his side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary's tragedy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. Aditi is a comedy superstar over in India. She's only one of three female English-speaking comedians in India.

Hasan Minhaj

#24. The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

Jake Gyllenhaal