Top 1200 Sketch Comedy Quotes & Sayings

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

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

There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

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

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

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

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

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.

By the time I got to uni sketch comedy was much more fashionable than stand-up.

It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.

A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy band. I was obsessed with sketch comedy. Being raised Christian, I was somewhat sheltered from the more radical high-art world. So to me, comedy was where people got to express themselves in an abstract way. It was a big part of my growing up.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's a lot more texture and subplot in drama than in comedy.

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.

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.

There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.

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.

I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'

Sketch shows change gears so drastically every two minutes. I think sketch shows are for sketch fans; they're not really for everybody.

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

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

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.

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

The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy in China. Like what world is that? I don't know how they would perceive art or sketch comedy. It's not a matter of intellect; it's a matter of language.

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

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I studied acting. Did sketch comedy in L.A.

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

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

I'm a huge sketch comedy fan, and I think my love of sketch is reflected in my stand-up in that I do a lot of vignettes and voices and characters.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

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.

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.

I think that if you just kind of try to throw together a sketch show, but you don't have any real vision for what you want to do with the sketch, I don't think your chances are very good. You know, "Let's just have a sketch show!" You have to do something different with it; you have to reinvent that form every so often.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

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

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.

A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.

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've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

I can't think of another place other than TV where a five-person sketch comedy group could make a living.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.