Fifth grade Quote by Tom Green

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

— Hasan Minhaj

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

— Dean Norris

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

— Reggie Watts

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

— Harris Dickinson

I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started…

— Jim Jefferies

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

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 always wanted to act and I always wanted to work in comedy.

— Esther Povitsky

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry,…

— Spoken Reasons

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I…

— Aasif Mandvi

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for…

— Colin Jost

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

— Anthony Jeselnik