Improv Troupe Quotes

I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.

I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

I am obsessed with improv.

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.

I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20.

There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

I was kind of in an experimental phase with The Disposable Rappers. This is boring to me, because it's true, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I visited my sister in college and saw an improv troupe, and that was a genuine moment for me. It was an actual "Aha!" moment. After I saw that, I said, "I want to do comedy." So The Disposable Rappers started doing improv in addition to rapping, and when I went to college, I very specifically went saying "I want to join a comedy group."

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.'