Kurt Braunohler Quotes

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run of it in this job. So, I went downtown in Chicago, and I went up on a stand-up stage and did an open mic. It went well, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll give it another try.'

At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

You can succeed as a terrible director, but try doing that with stand-up: try being a terrible comedian and getting up on stage. The funny will win out very, very quickly.

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

I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it's like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do.'

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

I took an improv class, and after my first class, I was like, 'Oh, I just want to do something like this. This is super fun.'

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.