Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.
Whitney CummingsRead
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the absurdity of outdated stereotypes about women and humor.
Whitney Cummings argues that the idea that women aren't funny is as outdated and ridiculous as other harmful stereotypes about different racial or ethnic groups. She emphasizes that such beliefs have no basis in reality and that clinging to them is an indication of a lack of understanding and acceptance of women's capabilities in comedy and beyond.
In practice
Using this quote during a panel discussion on gender in the entertainment industry.
Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.
I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape
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