“For me, it’s always a choice of wouldn’t it be funny if or isn’t it funny that.” – Mike Myers, pg. 49
“A sketch, if it’s a good sketch, should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it should have tremendous references that the audience really knows, so that you don’t have to work hard getting the laughs.” – Mel Brooks, pg. 65
“We humans love patterns. So, finding the pattern in the scene makes us happy.” – pg. 151
“We don’t do the show because it’s ready. We do it because it’s Saturday night.” – Lorne Michaels via Mike Birbiglia, pg. 184
“Some of them work. Most don’t. But if you just keep going, and keep making different things, some of them are gonna work. And that was enough for me.” – Bob Odenkirk, pg. 217
“I always wondered how people like stand-ups came up with characters, and I realized that you see characters every day.” – Kevin Nealon, pg. 230
“Sketch kind of is what it is because you have more of them, you have a handful of them. They are what they are in relation to each other, you know. This is a collection of ideas you’ve chosen to present. It’s like an album. […] You’ve got songs, but each song has to be a masterpiece unto itself. But, when you back up and look at the big picture, it’s gotta kinda make a different thing. Anyone can go anywhere for a funny piece of content right now. But watching them in conjunction with one another, and making them work in that way, is something special.” – Jordan Peele, pg. 288
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