Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Megan Ganz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Megan Ganz.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Megan Ann Ganz is an American comedy writer and former associate editor of The Onion. She has been a writer and executive producer on the FXX series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia since 2017. She previously wrote for the NBC series Community for three years from 2010 to 2013, and left to write for Modern Family from 2013 to 2015. She also wrote for the Fox comedy series The Last Man on Earth, and co-created the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest alongside Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day.

American - Writer | Born: June 1, 1984

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Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

Megan Ganz

In 'Red Dead Redemption' they have a thing where if you walk through snow your footsteps stay where you've gone. I think that's just representative of humanity.

Megan Ganz

When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the 'Every Three Weekly,' which, like a lot of college humor papers, was sort of based on 'The Onion.'

Megan Ganz

'Community' definitely always had a feel of being like college, where it's like, 'Let's band together and stay up all night to do this crazy thing!'

Megan Ganz

'Community' was my world for four seasons and my job for three, and has hold of my whole heart like a bad-news high school boyfriend.

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Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.

Megan Ganz

'Ocarina of Time.' That was my favorite. I loved N64.

Megan Ganz

What I always liked about 'Sunny' whenever it approached any sort of hot-button issue is that, ultimately, what the characters felt about it could change at any given instant depending on what benefited them the most personally.

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If you find a story that everybody likes and everybody relates to in some way, then you know you have a good story. But if you're telling a story and all the women are going, 'I'm checked out of this, I just don't really care,' then you're going to have some problems.

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And what's nice about 'Sunny' is that it has this honesty with the viewers, which is, like, they're here because they're on a television show and they're locked in this purgatory where they have to keep doing the same things with each other.

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They didn't let us see daylight on 'Community.'

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Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.

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Once I started writing at 'The Onion' I was like, oh this is it, this is my dream job, I've achieved my dream job.

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We're sort of in an age now when we have too much information, which can take us down a specific path. You're getting too much information too quickly to be able to slow it down and parse it out.

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You're trying to write for your idols. It's strange.

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People should see the good that can happen when you aren't afraid to accept responsibility for your mistakes.

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There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching women on television for years and then grow up and think, 'I could do funny stuff.'

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Just keep making comedy. Make it all the time whether it's your job or not. Consider it like you are already working or in the middle of your career.

Megan Ganz

We need to make sure we're bringing in diverse voices and not expecting everyone to be a representation of their ethnicity or their age or their gender, but judge them individually and make sure that we're figuring out who the person is and not just checking a box.

Megan Ganz

I realized there wasn't a structure in place at the time to have female mentors in positions above you. If there were women above me, they had gone through such a difficult time to get there that they had internalized the idea that women share the same space in the writers' room.

Megan Ganz

On 'Modern Family,' we have outlines, really strong outlines, when we go off to draft, so you have a reasonable expectation that that will be the story of your episode.

Megan Ganz

I grew up watching 'I Love Lucy.'

Megan Ganz

For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.

Megan Ganz

Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.

Megan Ganz

I'm getting to know the 'Modern Family' cast, and they are very sweet. They are very nice and supportive and game for things.

Megan Ganz

I was groped by a producer at a party a couple years ago, after which I made an anonymous complaint to HR. As far as I know he was never personally disciplined.

Megan Ganz

I don't think any of my classmates would say I was a class clown.

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I would love to approach, like, what are the lives of the people that actually play 'Mythic Quest,' because you have these devs that are affecting their lives.

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I haven't worked on a lot of different shows, but from just watching different shows I've noticed that there isn't necessarily on every show that love of crafting an episode that has the three part act structure that comes around and actually tells a complete story.

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Anytime people engage in something creative or just something they are really passionate about, obviously, it's hard to separate your personal feelings from what it is you are making.

Megan Ganz

When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it's socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, 'I can speak my mind and say what I want.'

Megan Ganz

It's dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.

Megan Ganz

Women are not different creatures from men. They don't need to be extra careful around us. They just need to treat us with the same basic respect and dignity that they show to other men.

Megan Ganz

You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.

Megan Ganz

There are headlines that I remember pitching that I think I know that they're not any good. But some part of my heart is attached to them. Like I had this one that was 'Spork Used as Knife.'

Megan Ganz

Yeah, I started with 'The Onion,' that was my first job out of college.

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