June Whitfield Quotes

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.

The Second City

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

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

I take comedy very seriously, and I feel very competitive.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

I started doing improv in college, and I met Mike Birbiglia and John Mulaney and a bunch of other very funny, talented people who I'm still friends with and work with.

Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball.

I've always wanted to work in comedy.