- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sketch Quotes
Where every finished idea begins.
This set covers sketch in two senses - the comedy-writing kind, rewritten around a table until the jokes land, and the drawing kind, the pencil outline a dress or a film starts from before anything is fixed. Both share a respect for the rough first pass, a theme also found in our Creativity collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We end the show with something that's never been on TV because it was too big for a sketch but we couldn't stretch it out to make a whole episode because it would have been too long, but we always thought it was really good.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show. I think one of the things that helped its mystique is, it never came out on DVD or video or whatever.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?
- Catalogue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020