College Quote by Ben Schwartz

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

— Bo Burnham

I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while…

— Ronny Chieng

I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not…

— Ilana Glazer

What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something…

— Ronny Chieng

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

— Dean Norris

I went to theater school, and then comedy... just happened.

— Emily Osment

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

— Dwayne Johnson

I always loved comedy, but in my mind, it wasn't a viable career option. I always thought, 'You go to college. You get a…

— Michelle Wolf

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art…

— Jessi Klein

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

— Ellie Kemper

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

I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now

— Bob Monkhouse