Zitat des Tages von Paula Pell:
If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'
I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being 'cocky,' or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.
Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.
I think, as a woman, you have to really make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure that you're covered and you have enough material written for you.
I went to college at University of Tennessee.
'Hudson Valley Ballers' is just the joy of my life.
My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.
I was always a bit of a class clown.
Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.
I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.
My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.
I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.