I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.
School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.