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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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 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 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 was the class clown type of guy.

— Bobb'e J. Thompson

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

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

— Judd Apatow

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

— Michael Keaton

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

— Bridgit Mendler

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

— Paul Feig

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