Natasia Demetriou Quotes

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

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.

As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

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.

It takes a lot of time to write and put up a sketch show, but that's part of who I am. I don't think that ever goes away, that sensibility - especially coming from the Upright Citizens Brigade. That's just who I am.

I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

My first sketch-writing class was with Kevin Allison from 'The State.' It was so cool.

I'm a huge sketch comedy fan, and I think my love of sketch is reflected in my stand-up in that I do a lot of vignettes and voices and characters.

One of the most positive takeaways I've had from 'SNL' is when we'd make videos back in the day: we'd just write material as we were inspired, and so, in a given year, we'd only put out two or three videos.

I wrote for this sketch group called Olde English for about six years and we made a movie together, but we sort of stopped making sketches.

I remember being captivated by Steve Coogan and Eddie Izzard and wanting to do what they did. That generation of comedians was my main influence.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

I like that 'Broad City' exists, and I love being around at the same time as 'Key & Peele.' I love those guys - I just, I love their faces.

What I love about sketch is that the writing of it is idea-based. It's not story-based. It's like, 'This is a behavior, and we're going to write, in a small sample, the funniest way to heighten this behavior.' Sitcoms or movies are about story.

I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.