Dave Foley Quotes

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

The Second City

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

I have been lucky enough to work in all kinds of comedy. I prefer working with other people. I could never do stand-up.

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham City Improv.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

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.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.

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

The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people who've worked together for a really long time.

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

I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.

We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

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.

I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'