Quotes About Improv

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show.

We met in high school, all in the same grade, and started doing improv and sketch together. That was almost 20 years ago at this point, and that's our identity outside of 'Impractical Jokers.'

We agree that there is a problem in the sketch and improv community where, in general, there should be more interest from a more diverse sampling of our society. That is precisely why we do have diversity scholarships and why we've put together a diversity program to try to figure this problem out.

With Red Skelton, you could fall flat on your face and he'd do his sketch around it.

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

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

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.

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

I have always been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid because one of my mom's boyfriends was an improv comedy guy so were doing skits all the time growing up.

We're an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that's our alter ego.

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.

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

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.

The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.