Bonus Quote by Bill Bailey

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

I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious…

— Phoebe Robinson

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

— Bo Burnham

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

— Dave Chappelle

If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in…

— Gabriel Iglesias

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest…

— Ron White

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've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

— Christopher Walken

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

— Ben Stiller

Once I found out there were places that people went to congregate and that there were schools to practice the craft of comedy, that's…

— Quinta Brunson

My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.

— H. Jon Benjamin

Comedy was an easy choice for me because I didn't have a career.

— Lee Mack