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I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.
- Gloria Steinem
The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.
- Gloria Steinem
People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.
- Jennifer Aniston
I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I'm launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.
- Keith Flint
As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.
- Pete Holmes
In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly
- Cicero
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.
- Charles Martin
I texted one of the writers I said, 'I have this crazy idea, I think I have to play Fran Lebowitz on Update.' The next day, Anna Drezen, our head writer, texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on Update.'
- Bowen Yang
I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word 'urban' but - when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who's launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?
- Kevin Hart
Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.
- Carol Burnett
If I go out and do a set, there's a good chance that I'll watch another comedian. I'll think - not necessarily their words, but oftentimes the message that's behind the words - the sort of belief that their unspokenly advocating, well, sometimes that's offensive.
- Pete Holmes