Quotes About Comedy

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 once played Jennifer Lopez's werewolf body double in a sketch. I don't think anyone was shocked when the sketch got cut after dress rehearsal.

I literally never thought I would be playing a pregnant cis woman earnestly. I thought maybe I'd do that in a sketch or something.

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.'

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

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'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.

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

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.'

The comedy I do on TV came from me being at art school and seeing Gilbert and George films, thinking they were hilarious. I was trying to do that, a sketch version of art, and it ended up on TV.

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.

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.

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.