I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Chris Parnell

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

Adam Clayton

Teacher You Who

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Alan Zweibel

Funny Age Wrote

I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

Albert Brooks

Morning Good You

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

Amy Poehler

Women Men Good

I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.

Andy Daly

Time Teacher Men

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

Anna Faris

Work Life Wing

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

Bas Rutten

Who Well Ways

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

Bazzi

Love Tent Ten

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

Bob Newhart

Funny Art Would

I was the class clown type of guy.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

Type T Own

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

Bobby Cannavale

UN T Own

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.

Brad Paisley

Art Who T

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

Britt Ekland

Who Use Us

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

Brooke Nevin

Mom T Remember

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

Carrot Top

Home Funny Family

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

Chance The Rapper

Time Funny Why

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Chris Parnell

Success Funny Ways

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

Chrissy Metz

War Home Ways

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

Christine Lavin

Teacher Good Wit

I was a class clown.

Colin Quinn

Own Low La

I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

Damon Wayans, Jr.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Dan Harmon

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

Dav Pilkey

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

Dean Haglund

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Dick Van Dyke

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

Dominic Monaghan

We knew we were different, even from our elementary school days. We were the class clowns; we engaged with people differently. We knew there was something out there that was meant for us.

Drew Scott

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Dustin Milligan

I was the class clown when I was a little young mustache.

E-40

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

Ellen DeGeneres

I spent most of my days in school being a class clown. I never shut up. By the time I was in middle school, I had myself a personal aide.

Enzo Amore

I was a class clown since second grade.

Eric Andre

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

Eric Stonestreet

My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

Fred Willard

I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.

Gilbert Gottfried

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

Greg Kinnear

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

Guillermo Diaz

My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That's no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it was really to mask a learning disability... When it came time for me to read out loud, I would crack jokes or create a diversion.

Ian Ziering

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

Issa Rae

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

J. Cole

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Janeane Garofalo

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

Janeane Garofalo

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

Jasper Carrott

Class clowns become actors.

Jasper Fforde

When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, 'Don't be no clown.' So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, 'Can we change this to just the funniest?'

Jermaine Fowler

I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn't have much of an attention span.

Joe Wicks

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

John Leguizamo

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

John Leguizamo

I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.

John Ritter