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Scott Adsit

(1965) Stand-up Comedian United States

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Scott Adsit is a stand-up comedian from the United States.

Quick Facts About Scott Adsit

Born: November 26, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Stand-up Comedian

About Scott Adsit

Robert Scott Adsit is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicago's The Second City in 1994 after attending Columbia College Chicago. He appeared in several revues, including Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Scott Adsit · Page 2

You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.'

Actor

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I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would…

Air

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'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential…

Great

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The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and…

Bad

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The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea,…

Better

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I see my share of loons. I just performed with someone who had a meltdown on stage. He needed focus, and he…

Crazy

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New York is almost as important as Chicago, improv-wise.

Chicago

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Improv is... gods creating worlds.

Creating

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I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing the…

City

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I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be…

Acting

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It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

Communication

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Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

Gets

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I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20.

Doing

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I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

About

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I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

Been

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I came up through Second City, so I'm used to playing 20 characters every night who are very different from each other.…

Career

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I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that…

Character

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I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

Comedian

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I would be onstage all the time if I could.

Could

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New York has surprised me a couple of times. I was a snob about pizza, but I've found one or two places…

About

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