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“I had a wonderful elementary school and loved school so much.”
“Teachers should never have to want for anything.”
“I don't think I have anything to prove, per se, but I would like to make more things, whether it be TV or film or books or whatever.”
“There are shows that are doing incredible work on broadcast, especially in comedy. You have to hit that sweet spot of being interesting, in the zeitgeist, and a show that people want to write about, talk about and commune over. I think that is harder on broadcast. But it can be done: 'Abbott' is testament to that.”
“Becoming a performer, comedian - anything other than a teacher, really - seemed very far-fetched. So I kind of split off into this separate world, where secretly I was doing improv classes.”
“Austin Powers in Goldmember' was my favorite movie growing up. My mom wanted to burn the DVD. She hates stupid stuff.”
“We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.”
“Anyone who knows anything about Jehovah's Witnesses, it's a pretty strict religion to people who aren't in it. But I kind of continued to push the boundaries until I eventually pushed my way out of it.”
“I went to a high school that specialized in art and design, and I had a teacher there who was Mexican and exposed us to a lot of Mexican artists, so learning about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in ninth grade really fed my soul and complemented all my other classes.”
“It's weird how I was like, 'I'll probably live in apartments for the rest of my life.' I never thought I'd have a house. Isn't that crazy? But I will always have goals that will push me to another place creatively, because goals make me feel like life is worth living.”
“Some of my favorite series from the past - like those by Norman Lear - are able to show care and comedy in the same breath; one doesn't negate the other.”
“Improv and sketch comedy felt very natural to me, like all the things I loved had come together: my sense of humor, being on stage - I grew up performing in dance troupes - and collaborating with other people.”
“I knew I didn't have the patience to be a teacher.”
“Before I started doing stand-up, I never envisioned doing it. I strictly saw myself doing improv and sketch comedy, and then, when I started doing it, I enjoyed it. I found the value in it.”
“For my mom, the child that misbehaved the most was kind of like her favorite student by the end of the year. She would have this weird relationship where she would come home and my family would know, OK, this is your problem child this year. But it's also like your favorite child because you come home and talk about them every day.”
“SNL' is pretty much what fully got me into comedy.”
“When you give people lives and fleshed out thoughts and feelings, it helps the masses think twice before they overlook them.”
“During college is when I started really watching 'SNL' consistently. Every Saturday night, I watched, and it made me be like, Man, these people... I know they're funny people, but there has to be more to it than that. How did they learn to work with people at such a fast pace and make this show every week?”
“I think working at BuzzFeed Video specifically kind of taught me about, like, the science of relatability, where - you know, those BuzzFeed videos, that era, that time and those videos all had a - there was a format to it.”
“My favorite part of school was always my art classes.”