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16 quotes by Scott Adsit

Robert Scott Adsit (born November 26, 1965) is an American actor, writer, voice actor and improvisational comedian. Born in Northbrook, Illinois, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicago's The Second City in 1994 after attending Columbia College Chicago. He appeared in several Jeff award-winning revues, including Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy. From 2005–2008, he co-directed, co-wrote and...
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Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

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I enjoy doing physical comedy.

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I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

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I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

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I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

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I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

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'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

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Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.

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Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

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I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially... →

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I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like... →

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I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang... →

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I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over... →

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