Improviser

🇨🇦Catherine O'Hara

Entertainment

1954–2026

"Why work alone if you don’t have to? It’s all give and take. It’s all about listening to others and contributing. Even if you didn’t want to act, improv classes are great, because they teach you about conversation."

🇺🇸Tina Fey

Entertainment

b. 1970

"This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in 10,000 pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over 14,000 dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him."

🇬🇧Marcus Brigstocke

Entertainment

b. 1973

"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

🇬🇧Sandi Toksvig

Literature

b. 1958

"I don't want anybody to say to me, 'I'm fine with it, I accept you.' You think, wow, thanks so much, because if you hadn't I would have killed myself."

🇬🇧Griff Rhys Jones

Entertainment

b. 1953

"For me real peace is lying on a river bank in summer with a sprig of grass in my mouth. I have friends who jet off to a luxury hotel. I think, 'How can you enjoy such ghastly luxury?'"

🇬🇧Stephen Fry

Entertainment

atheism

b. 1957

"Dacre is, all those who have had the misfortune to work for him assure me, just about as loathsome, self-regarding, morally putrid, vengeful and disgusting a man as it possible to be."