Rachel Dratch

“I started doing improv my sophomore year.”

“Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.”

“Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.”

“I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.”

“I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.”

“I have no wisdom to share on dating.”

“The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.”

“If it gets laughs, it's funny.”

“In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.”

“Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.”

“I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.”

“I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.”

“I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.”

“I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.”

“But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.”

“An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.”

“When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.”

“Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.”

“If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.”

“I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.”