"I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of ..." — 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.'

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.