Sketch Comedy Quotes:

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

- Bob Odenkirk

source: "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David" by Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.

topic: Needs, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

- Bradley Whitford

topic: Fans, Bob, Want, Sketch Comedy

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

- John Oliver

topic: Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

- Emma Stone

topic: Acting, Comedy, Youth, Improv Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

- Jen Kirkman

topic: Clubs, Firsts, Comedy, 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.

- Jamie Farr

topic: Television, Want, Sids, Sketch Comedy

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

- Megan Mullally

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Years, People, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

- Vince Vaughn

topic: Character, People, Tragedy, Personal Taste, Sketch Comedy

I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

- Thomas Lennon

topic: Character, Thinking, Play, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Missi Pyle

source: Source: collider.com

topic: College, Males, Groups, Sketch Comedy

I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

- Wendi McLendon-Covey

source: "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Mean, Comedy, Legendary, Troupe, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Kevin Nealon

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Night, Would Be, Comedy, Saturday Night Live, Sketch Comedy

I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But I did a ton of sketch comedy at the Second City in LA, which (at the time, in a different location) wasn't really a theater, it was just a space where you took some classes.

- Simon Helberg

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Space, Class, Cities, Second City, Sketch Comedy

I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.

- Simon Helberg

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Hipster, Eye, Cities, Second City, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Demetri Martin

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

topic: Writing, Tv Shows, Long, Long Story, Sketch Comedy

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?

- Will Ferrell

source: Interview with Henry Northmore, film.list.co.uk. November 06, 2009.

topic: Play, Safe, Firsts, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Thomas Lennon

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: People, Guy, Scripts, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Adam Pally

source: "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

topic: Order, Wings, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

- Paul Rudd

source: "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Paul Rudd Talks Suiting Up, Rewrites, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

topic: Comedian, Comedy, Study, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Kel Mitchell

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Faces, Comedy, Shows, Comedy Shows, Sketch Comedy

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

- Amy Poehler

topic: Giants, Comedy, Sombreros, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Aries Spears

topic: Thinking, Able, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Illeana Douglas

source: Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.

topic: Real, Night, Thinking, Sketch Comedy

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

- Jamie Farr

topic: Years, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

- Maya Rudolph

topic: Men, Doubt, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

- Nicole Sullivan

topic: Actors, Want, Firsts, Sketch Comedy

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

- Dana Carvey

topic: Night, Years, Television, Saturday Night, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Jordan Peele

source: "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

topic: Want, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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.

- Jason Sudeikis

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dark, Comedy, Minutes, Sketch Comedy

I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live." And then I got to a place where I didn't want to do those things anymore.For the sketch comedy thing, I got cast on "MADtv," and that will kill any man's desire to do comedy.

- Simon Helberg

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Men, Night, Desire, Sketch Comedy

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

- John Krasinski

topic: Teacher, College, One Day, English Teacher, Flyers

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

- Jenna Fischer

topic: Comedy, Type, Backgrounds, Sketch Comedy

I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

- Kate McKinnon

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Talking, Voice, Sketch Comedy

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

- Colin Hanks

source: "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

topic: Laughing, Trying, Fans, Sketch Comedy

One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.

- Scott Raab

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Blow, Feelings, Comedy, Blowing Smoke, Sketch Comedy

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City to see the classic 'Paradigm Lost' revue - with Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Scott Adsit and Kevin Dorff. It blew my mind, and proved to me you can do sketch comedy like you're doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night.' We could treat it like theater.

- Mike Birbiglia

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Night, Journey, College, Troupe, Second City

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

- Andy Daly

source: Source: logger.believermag.com

topic: Character, Suits Of Armor, Hats, Sketch Comedy