Sketch Writing Quotes

I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

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.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really 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.

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.

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 always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you could just send sketches to the BBC, and they'd go, 'Great. We'll put these on telly.' But I gradually realised that you either had to go to university and join a club, or do standup.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

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.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

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

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.