It’s very hard for a woman in comedy. It’s hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

Cho links the professional demands of stand-up—audacity, risk-taking, and indifference to audience approval—to gendered social conditioning that pressures women to be agreeable and to seek validation, especially from men. The remark suggests that comedy’s rewards often go to performers who can withstand judgment and sexualized scrutiny, and that heterosexual women may feel these pressures more acutely in male-dominated comedy spaces. Her provocative final sentence reads less as a literal demographic claim than as a commentary on how distance from male approval (whether through identity, community, or self-conception) can make it easier to be fearless onstage. The quote also reflects Cho’s broader interest in sexuality, power, and transgression as comedic material.