Abandoned Quote by Baratunde Thurston

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

— Ellie Kemper

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On…

— Alexandra Petri

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

— Humphrey Lyttelton

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much…

— Jimmy O. Yang

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

— Dean Norris

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love…

— Andrea Mitchell

As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and…

— Eric Metaxas

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

— Stephen Gaghan

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

— Bo Burnham

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I…

— Lil Dicky

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A.…

— Stephen A. Smith