Sketch Comedy Quotes

• I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

  John Oliver

  Comedy

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

  Bradley Whitford

  Fans, Bob, Want

  "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

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• I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

  Emma Stone

  Acting, Comedy, Youth

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• Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Needs, Comedy

  "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David" by Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But I did a ton of sketch comedy at the Second City in LA, which (at the time, in a different location) wasn't really a theater, it was just a space where you took some classes.

  Simon Helberg

  Space, Class, Cities

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.

  Simon Helberg

  Hipster, Eye, Cities

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

  Jamie Farr

  Television, Want, Sids

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• My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Character, People, Tragedy

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

  Megan Mullally

  Years, People, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Jen Kirkman

  Clubs, Firsts, Comedy

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• There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

  Missi Pyle

  College, Males, Groups

  Source: collider.com

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• When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

  Will Ferrell

  Play, Safe, Firsts

  Interview with Henry Northmore, film.list.co.uk. November 06, 2009.

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• But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

  Demetri Martin

  Writing, Tv Shows, Long

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Mean, Comedy, Legendary

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

  Kevin Nealon

  Night, Would Be, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Television

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• People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Guy, Scripts

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

  Adam Pally

  Wings, Order, Common

  "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

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• I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

  Paul Rudd

  Comedian, Comedy, Study

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Paul Rudd Talks Suiting Up, Rewrites, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live." And then I got to a place where I didn't want to do those things anymore.For the sketch comedy thing, I got cast on "MADtv," and that will kill any man's desire to do comedy.

  Simon Helberg

  Men, Night, Desire

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, Comedy, Enjoyed

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• Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

  Maya Rudolph

  Men, Doubt, Comedy

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, College, One Day

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• If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

  Nicole Sullivan

  Needs, Actors, Want

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