Rachel Sklar Quotes

When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.

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 want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

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

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

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.

'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

I really love 'Real Housewives.' It's like the, you know, comedy stuff that's, like, intentionally funny. Like, I love 'Nathan for You,' that Comedy Central show. It's just brilliant. My friend Bill Eichner has a show called 'Billy on the Street' that I write for, and even if I didn't write for it, I'd still love it.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.