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I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.

I got my degree in acting and theater, and then I had a teacher who told me to take a class with The Groundlings. And for a second, I thought, 'Well, I don't know about that. I'm a serious actress.' And then I did, and I loved it, and I said, 'Ah, well, I guess this is what I'm going to do now.'

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

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

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.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

When I first did 'Best in Show,' I had never done any improvisation.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

The Second City

Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations where - as an actor - you have to think fast & be light on your feet.

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

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.'

I just want to keep doing my comedy work because that's what I do. I made a name for myself playing other characters.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.