Audience Quote by Steven Wright

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out…

— Tom Green

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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

— Hasan Minhaj

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

— Mark Ruffalo

I always knew I was quite good at getting laughs. At school, I loved having a ready audience if I made a cheeky remark.

— Michael McIntyre

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

— Paul Merton

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I…

— Roy Clark

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get…

— Guillermo Diaz

For the better part of the first year in college, I didn't understand a single joke. For the better part of the second year,…

— Jon Rahm

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political.…

— David Zucker

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh,…

— Steven Wright

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an…

— Justin Timberlake