comedy Quotes

"Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh."

"Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe... ...

"You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control."

"If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch."

"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one... ...

"Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented."

"Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what... ...

"I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like... ...

"Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends."

"Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing... ...