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The Second City

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

I have been lucky enough to work in all kinds of comedy. I prefer working with other people. I could never do stand-up.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

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.

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.