It's a whole other level : the fan interactions at these shows because it's incredibly personal for them. When you make a TV show you're kind of doing it in a vacuum, unless the times that you're on Twitter and kind of actively talking to fans. So in the live shows, the content from the TV show really takes on its own life.

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The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.

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That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

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If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

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I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

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There is so much more to me than my parts and what I wear, what my clothes are.

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It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

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When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

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Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

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Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

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Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

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I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized.

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'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

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Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

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I didn't have a sense of how to dress. I still don't really, but, like, back then, I truly had no sense of how to dress because I wanted to be a tomboy - I thought I was a tomboy, but secretly wanted to be girly, but didn't know the first thing about making myself girly. So I ended up like wearing just like sweatpants to school with, like, long T-shirts that I got on family vacations. And it was just weird.

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I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

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You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?

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If you let love solve everything for you, you have a lot of problems.

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I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

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As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

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