Kate Flannery Quotes

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.

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.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

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.

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

We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

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.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.

Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.

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

The word 'supportive' has no place in stand-up comedy. I hate when people are like, 'Support female comedy.' That's not a real genre of comedy. I think if you have true respect for women as three-dimensional creators who are innovative, you wouldn't group them together like that.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

After 'Wedding Crashers' I was just surprised as to the lack of comedic female material there is. So I had to start working and getting stuff out there for myself.

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.