Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

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.

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

The Second City

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I'd been doing standup since college.

I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

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

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

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

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.