Tim Meadows Quotes

Sometimes I’ll go down a path, and I’ll just pray that something’s going to come to get me out of this path that I’m on.

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn’t popular in the inner cities.

Not everybody agrees on what’s funny, obviously.

In my experience with women that I’ve dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren’t a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

I’ve never been arrested. I’ve been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

I was really shy as a kid.