My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share
