A. J. Liebling Quotes

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

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 like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

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.

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.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

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

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

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

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

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

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

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

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

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

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

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

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

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

I've predominantly done comedy over the years.