Lee Mack Quotes

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.

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.

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

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

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

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

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.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.