A biography for Megan Ganzhasn’t been written yet.
“You're trying to write for your idols. It's strange.”
“Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.”
“Women are not diversity. We're half the population.”
“'Community' was my world for four seasons and my job for three, and has hold of my whole heart like a bad-news high school boyfriend.”
“Once I started writing at 'The Onion' I was like, oh this is it, this is my dream job, I've achieved my dream job.”
“Women are not different creatures from men. They don't need to be extra careful around us. They just need to treat us with the same basic respect and dignity that they show to other men.”
“Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.”
“When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the 'Every Three Weekly,' which, like a lot of college humor papers, was sort of based on 'The Onion.'”
“'Ocarina of Time.' That was my favorite. I loved N64.”
“There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching women on television for years and then grow up and think, 'I could do funny stuff.'”
“I'm getting to know the 'Modern Family' cast, and they are very sweet. They are very nice and supportive and game for things.”
“For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.”
“It's dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.”
“I started reading 'The Onion' when I was 13 years old.”
“I realized there wasn't a structure in place at the time to have female mentors in positions above you. If there were women above me, they had gone through such a difficult time to get there that they had internalized the idea that women share the same space in the writers' room.”
“Just keep making comedy. Make it all the time whether it's your job or not. Consider it like you are already working or in the middle of your career.”
“Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.”
“In 'Red Dead Redemption' they have a thing where if you walk through snow your footsteps stay where you've gone. I think that's just representative of humanity.”