Comedian Quote by Sam Seder

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

— Paul Feig

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long…

— Iain Stirling

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job…

— Thomas Lennon

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

— Ellie Kemper

I started comedy as a hobby with no intention of making it my career.

— Ellie Taylor

I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I…

— Ellen DeGeneres

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.

— Brad Hall

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

— Sara Pascoe

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my…

— Rachel Bloom

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

— Ben Stiller

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

— Paul Rudd

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then…

— Sharon Horgan