If Donald Trump ran for President, it would be great for us comedians. It would not be good for anybody else, but it would be terrific for us.
I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
I was inspired by comedy channels. I loved that they got to do sketches and could be funny and crude and make people laugh. But most of those channels, if not all of them, were done by guys.
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes.
When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.
I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
Comedy people like other comedy people. People hang out and are friends and do shows together, and when you get something going like a TV show or a movie, you want your friends to be in it and make it funnier. That's just the way it should be.
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'
Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it. You don't have to be great to make a living at it. Just like a doctor who doesn't have to be great can still make a living out of it.
It's embarrassing to say you want to be a comedian. Admitting that you want attention and you think you're such a laugh.
You have to be delusional to be a comedian.
I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.
Comedy is a funny business, which you have to take seriously.
Comedy's the only job I say where you wake up and you're like 'Can't do it!'
I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.
