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I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best friends that are not sexually desirable.

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.

There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.

Women have been funny for years.

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.