Quotes About Comedy

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've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

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

If there are kids in the crowd, I try to be more animated for them. It does change a little bit each show. There's a lot of improv.

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.

I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

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.

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.

When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that.

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

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.

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

It's always fun to improvise.

I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

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