Quotes About Entertainment

I never set out to do a sketch show.

I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv.

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

Every time I see Trump on TV these days, I'm waiting for him to burst out, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' That would make sense to me - that this has all been one long 'Saturday Night Live' sketch.

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

'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.

I've always wanted to do a sketch show. And they've sort of gone out of fashion for a bit, or they've just stopped doing them for whatever reason.

I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.

What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.

I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.