Sara Pascoe Quotes

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

When I read 'Scream Queens' for the first time, I felt the voice of the show was fresh, unapologetic, and non-stop fun.

More useful than beautiful perhaps, my favourite regular programme is 'Question Time'. And Charlie Brooker is just hilarious.

I started watching 'Daria' when I was in college because I didn't have cable growing up. It's such a smart show with a different type of female character.

What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It's famous for it. There'd be blokes dressing up as women as a lark, but 'EastEnders' seems blind to the fact that they enjoy a laugh. There should be a cheery chappy on there.

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

So Stephanie.. you wanna say let the bodies hit the floor... I would say... let the boobies hit the floor!

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!