I want to try something on situational comedy.
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.
I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.
I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!'
Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'
When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That's where I get sort of lost. I think, "Oh, there are six other jokes that we could say here!" I feel more at home with drama.
I'm obsessed with American talk shows.
I'm an old school cat. I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and also Redd Foxx.
'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.
I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them quite funny, with punchlines - they're kind of like sketches.
All That' and 'Kenan & Kel' were my thing when I was little.
I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'
Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
When I'm stopped in the street, people want to talk about 'The Two Ronnies' and the sketches we did.
I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.
I wrote comedy sketches in college.
I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
I've done hip-hop videos, family comedies, a quirky comedy.
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.
Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
