Quotes About Humor

I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience.

If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.

So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.

I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

That's really what 'Jokers' is - an improv show.

Jokers' is an improv show in disguise.

We're improv comedians, we're not necessarily actors, we don't come across that way.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

If I improvise at all on 'The Goldbergs,' it's with the physical stuff.

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

It's always fun to improvise.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.