Comedy Quote by Peter Lorre

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

— Mae Martin

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

— Hasan Minhaj

I came across a thing that said you could be a comedian in two weeks and I thought 'behave - nobody could do that.'

— Chris McCausland

I started in comedy when I was a kid, doing impressions for family members. Comedy was the way to engage people.

— Harris Dickinson

When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to…

— Amy Poehler

Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought,…

— Emo Philips

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour…

— Trevor Moore

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on…

— Carly Craig

All the comedians that I came up with in Chicago - especially the ones at Second City - actively understood when we were writing…

— E. R. Fightmaster

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

— Carrot Top

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

— Ellie Taylor

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was…

— Zach Woods