Abbi Jacobson Quotes

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I like comedy as a group sport.

Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.

I think I'm comedy-attractive, but it's never gonna be me and Charlize Theron up there.

I was a class clown. I realized early on feeling very comfortable in front of people.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

I love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

I'd like to do more dramatic roles but I would never give up comedy to do it. I've seen a lot of actors that do a complete 180 degrees and say: "I'm done with comedy, I want to be taken seriously." I take my comedy very seriously and I want to be taken seriously because of my comedy. I think it's more fun for me. I enjoy laughing and attempting to make people laugh. So I'd like to do more drama but I'd never do the 180 thing.

When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.

When I started doing my act, I wasn't married and didn't have kids. I was probably 29 years old. Some people say that's not a kid, but when you're 50, and you look back to when you were 30, you were a kid. You look back on your 30s and think, "I was an idiot!" But I would just do things then I thought were funny. I couldn't have cared less who thought anything about it.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

I remember doing a lot of comedy. I always loved that feeling when you do something on stage and you can feel the vibe of the audience turn, and they start laughing. It's how you know something's not right, and how to fix it, or how to make the moment stronger or funnier.