Top 50 Class Clown Quotes

Nobody has proved quite as adept as laughing at himself as former President George W. Bush, who willingly conceded to being a class clown, even as a candidate in 1999.

I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I created ‘Captain Underpants’ when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing ‘Captain Underpants’. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

I went from being the shy weirdo to the class clown in a couple of years.

When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, ‘Don’t be no clown.’ So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, ‘Can we change this to just the funniest?’

I made a living out of being a class clown.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians’ albums and watching them on TV, on ‘The Tonight Show’ and Letterman.

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.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I was a class clown. I realized early on feeling very comfortable in front of people.

I was always the class clown.

I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn’t have much of an attention span.

I really wasn’t a class clown.

I actually wasn’t really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, ‘You’re fat. You’re gay. I’m outta here!’ I was always more kind of awkward and introspective.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.

I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.

George Carlin’s album, ‘Class Clown,’ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

I spent most of my days in school being a class clown. I never shut up. By the time I was in middle school, I had myself a personal aide.

My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don’t know why – maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

I was a class clown.

I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn’t a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child.

I’d never been the class clown and comedy was not a fulfilment of a dream.

I’m the smart aleck. The class clown. I’m the guy who does the song nobody expects.

I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, ‘Wow, this is exciting, I’m a little bit nervous.’

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

I think I was always the class clown.

I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

I was never the class clown, and I’ve no idea where the comedy came from.

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.

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

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.

I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.

I actually was class clown, but I don’t know how that happened because I’ve never been considered an outwardly funny person.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn’t very funny.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor – not on television, but in the theatre.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That’s why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn’t take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don’t know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I was a class clown.

I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, ‘Raphael thinks he’s a real comedian.’