CECILY STRONG

I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a lot of hair product.

I'm generally happier and more easy going when it's warm outside.

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they've just witnessed a murder.

If something awkward happens, laugh. I don't think I've ever dated a guy who couldn't laugh - even in bed, during intimate times.

I've been slightly hypoglycemic since I was a kid, so I have to make sure I eat in the morning and get my sugar.

I love so many cheeses. I like them hard and soft. I like cream cheese; I like cottage cheese... I'm a true Midwesterner.

I don't have the most confidence in the world, and I'd venture to say most women in comedy don't come from a place of, 'Oh, I'm fabulous!' She's just as nervous as you are. So if you're trying to score with a funny girl, laugh at her jokes and tell her how hilarious she is.