I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would…

— Michael Kors

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

— Bob Odenkirk

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

— Amy Poehler

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and…

— Brian d'Arcy James

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

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that comes out…

— Selenis Leyva

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at…

— Amanda Tapping

I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize…

— Allison Tolman

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and…

— Illeana Douglas

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

— Jamie Farr

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

— Selenis Leyva

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

— Reece Thompson

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got…

— John Krasinski

I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to…

— Andy Daly