Sketch Comedy Quotes

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That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.