“Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written. I don't even really write the jokes, they just come into my head, and a joke can't come into my head on stage, because I'm too busy.”— Steven Wright, avclub.com
“In improv, as in life, the answer is always “Yes, and,” especially if the question is “Are all of your friends looking for reasons they can’t come to your improv show?””— Riane Konc, newyorker.com
“Improv is the lowest form of comedy. That whole school of yours is just a bunch of actors so janky-looking, no one will write lines for them, so you have to make them up yourself.”— Stephen Falk, Philippe Iujvidin, Gretchen Cutler, Aya Cash, imdb.com
“Do you know what I'd rather experience than long-form improv? Long-form bone cancer.”— Eva Anderson, imdb.com
“I think it’s the freedom to allow yourself to let go. We have a script that is really well-written every week. They put it all together for us and then we’re allowed to venture off a little bit. It’s kind of like an improv, but it’s not. You don’t call it that. We just get into the situation and the…”— Danny DeVito, shakefire.com