Quotes About Performance

At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

The Internet is a sketch show.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.

But I started out as a comedian doing sketch work where you get to write, produce and direct your own stuff.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

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.

You only feel as good as your last sketch.

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

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.

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

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

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

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.

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.