Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit
Robert Scott Adsitis an American actor, writer, voice actor and improvisational comedian. Born on the North Shore of 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 November 1965
CityNorthbrook, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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 college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other.
I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.
I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.
I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.
Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.
I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
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, emotionally, egotistically.
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.
I enjoy doing physical comedy.
Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.
Improv is... gods creating worlds.
In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.