Career Quote by Quinta Brunson

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

It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms…

— Ellie Kemper

In my career spanning over two decades, I've never felt that comedy is a department everybody can excel in because it's an art and…

— M. S. Narayana

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

— Ben Stiller

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art,…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

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

I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was…

— Bill Bailey

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.

— Sara Pascoe

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

— Harris Dickinson

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