Quotes About Humor

I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it as well.

There have been times where I have said, even in a sketch that I'm not in, 'I don't think you should be making that joke at the expense of Asian people.'

A sketch show by its very nature is hit and miss.

I don't know what a good sketch show is.

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

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

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.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

I love mustaches with all my heart. There's just something about sketch comedy and mustaches.

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

'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.

I was a big fan of sketch comedy and cartoons growing up.

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 think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.

Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

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