Comedy Stereotypes Quotes

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don't get grouped as 'dad comics.'

In comedy, it's not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They're either every man or every woman, they're either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington D.C. If I say 'comedian,' people automatically assume that you're a comedian who talks about how his wife won't listen to him and that dummy down at the mechanic who wouldn't fix his car.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

You might be a redneck if you've ever worn a dress that is strapless with a bra that isn't.

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

You can be too pretty for comedy - man or woman.

In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you're not.

If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm funny.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.

People tend to feel that if you're a comedian, you can't act.

I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

In a lot of comedies, they kind of take all the problems away from the women. They give her great clothes, great hair; she almost always owns an artisanal shop, like a cheese shop in Manhattan.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.