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I wrote comedy sketches in college.
I was always doodling house sketches.
I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.
All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'
I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.
Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.
Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.
When I'm stopped in the street, people want to talk about 'The Two Ronnies' and the sketches we did.
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.
I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them.
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.
I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
It's way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.
I wrote for this sketch group called Olde English for about six years and we made a movie together, but we sort of stopped making sketches.
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
I think there are people that don't think 'SNL' should make movies because sketches don't translate. Sometimes they don't, but sometimes they do.
A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?
I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others.
I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.
I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.
When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.