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“I told Chris [Farley] and the writers, "Look. Whatever you do, the one thing to remember is: don't start from the ending [of the "van down by the river" sketch]. Start from the beginning, so that you have somewhere to go." Almost every time Chris did that sketch after I left SNL, he started by breaking the table. I just became one of those dangerous examples of becoming addicted to the big laugh. You become addicted as a performer to that big moment, and you ask yourself, Why am I not just doing my big thing that gets the big reaction? Why am I not just standing up there and doing that?”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“I told Chris [Farley] and the writers, "Look. Whatever you do, the one thing to remember is: don't start from the ending [of the "van down by the river" sketch]. Start from the beginning, so that you have somewhere to go." Almost every time Chris did that sketch after I left SNL, he started by breaking the table. It just became one of those dangerous examples of becoming addicted to the big laugh. You become addicted as a performer to that big moment, and you ask yourself, Why am I not just doing my big thing that gets the big reaction? Why am I not just standing up there and doing that?”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“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.”

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Author:Jason Sudeikis

“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.”

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Author:Jordan Peele

“Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.”

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Author:Kel Mitchell

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

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Author:Paul Rudd

“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.”

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Author:Adam Pally

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

“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.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“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.”

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Author:Megan Mullally

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

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“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.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“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.”

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Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“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.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.”

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Author:Kate McKinnon

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

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Author:Andy Daly

“One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.”

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Author:Scott Raab

“When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City to see the classic 'Paradigm Lost' revue - with Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Scott Adsit and Kevin Dorff. It blew my mind, and proved to me you can do sketch comedy like you're doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night.' We could treat it like theater.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“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.”

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Author:Simon Helberg

“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.”

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Author:Simon Helberg

“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.”

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Author:Simon Helberg

“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.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

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

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Author:Amy Poehler

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

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Author:Emma Stone

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

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Author:Bradley Whitford

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

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Author:John Oliver

“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.”

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Author:Aries Spears

“I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.”

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Author:Illeana Douglas

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

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Author:Jamie Farr

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

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Author:Maya Rudolph

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

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Author:Nicole Sullivan

“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.”

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Author:Jamie Farr

“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?”

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Author:Will Ferrell

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

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Author:Dana Carvey

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

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Author:Jenna Fischer

“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.”

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Author:John Krasinski

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