I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy. — Nicole Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a… — Horatio Sanz Copy Share Image
A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating… — Reece Thompson Copy Share Image
People who have theater or sketch-comedy backgrounds seem to be more, you know, our speed. Like Amy Poehler and Will Arnett -… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos. — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny.… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I was doing this really wacky sketch comedy but at the same time writing these dark, cerebral plays about characters coming to… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show', why would you want to go… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous,… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
I have always been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid because one of my mom's boyfriends was an improv comedy… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
When I started doing stand-up, there were people who were like, 'Well, that's not stand-up.' Then I started writing sketch comedy, and… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan. — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Simon Helberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e3/simon-helberg-6849_becoming_i-met-a-bunch-of-people-and-they-said-we_2550567.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Thomas Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/afc/thomas-lennon-16150_backgrounds_i-think-people-were-not-expecting-us-wit_2516035.png)
![“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."…” quote by Wendi McLendon-Covey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/184/wendi-mclendon-covey-13920_asks_i-had-seen-some-shows-at-the-groundlings_3081635.jpg)
