“It think it’s an incredible time to be funny,” “Abbott Elementary” star Lisa Ann Walter said at the TheWrap’s “Keeping it Fresh: Careers That Keep Evolving” panel as part of the inaugural Women of Comedy Emmy Showcase .

“And it doesn’t matter the age,” she continued. “I came into this town to star in my own TV shows, and if those had gone and I had been a big star, I would have died in a drunken car wreck somewhere for real. So having had all this time in between to do a number of different jobs and raise my children and come into a show as a woman of my age, and owning my talent and my power is incredible for me.”

Joined by fellow Emmy contenders Iliza Schlesinger (“Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal”), Sasheer Zamata (“Agatha All Along”), Julianne Nicholson (“Hacks”) and Bridget E

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