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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Adam Braun
Life
Love
Music
Future
Communicate
Amazing
Beauty
Our
Our Love
Pencil
Give
Life-Changing
Poetry
Write
Untold
Equations
Amazing Things
Uplifting
Transcendent
Sketch
Us
Aspirations
Things
Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.
Carol Burnett
Funny
Old
Laughter
Dare
Harvey
More
Look
Tim
Doing
Years
Dentist
Than
Scream
Anyone
Which
Sketch
Conway
I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
Robert Redford
Drawing
Tell
Just
Wanted
Stories
Sketch
Paint
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
T. J. Miller
Music
Writing
Comedy
Seven
Those
Badminton
Improv
Forms
Sketch
Acting
My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
Carol Burnett
People
Comedy
Joke
Telling
Situational
Where
Story
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Preference
Who
What I love about sketch is that the writing of it is idea-based. It's not story-based. It's like, 'This is a behavior, and we're going to write, in a small sample, the funniest way to heighten this behavior.' Sitcoms or movies are about story.
Adam Pally
Love
Writing
Behavior
Way
About
Small
Write
Like
Sitcoms
Going
Sample
Story
Movies
Sketch
Funniest
It takes a lot of time to write and put up a sketch show, but that's part of who I am. I don't think that ever goes away, that sensibility - especially coming from the Upright Citizens Brigade. That's just who I am.
Adam Pally
Time
Think
Citizens
Write
Part
Put
Takes
Am
Coming
Lot
Up
Goes
Upright
Just
Sensibility
Sketch
Show
Who
Brigade
Away
Ever
I grew up in rural Ireland; we only had a few TV channels and had never even heard of sketch shows, but it was completely natural for me to tell jokes and stories.
Aisling Bea
Me
Jokes
Natural
Few
Channels
Tell
TV
Rural
Only
Never
Had
Heard
Up
Ireland
Grew
Stories
Sketch
Even
Shows
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
Alber Elbaz
Teacher
Dreams
Day
Me
Every Day
Old
Year
Every
Gave
Dresses
About
She
Years
End
Did
Either
Sketch
Wore
Sketching
Fantasy
Her
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
Albert Finney
Great
You
Important
Think
Telling
Ability
Seems
Something
Great Qualities
Simply
Feel
Like
Qualities
Tim
Doing
Very
Get
Quite
Being
Sketch
Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.
Alex Borstein
Funny
Time
You
Comedy
Big
Similar
Something
Animation
Very
Short
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Ridiculous
Amount
I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
Allison Tolman
Mom
You
Comedy
Way
Minnesota
Some
Accent
Years
Version
Quickest Way
Done
Sketch
Midwestern
Sketch Comedy
Symbolize
Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.
Amanda Tapping
Time
Women
Comedy
Passion
Before
Other
Way
Television
Out
Kind
Smack
Along
Footwear
French
How
Doing
Lines
Very
Sensible
Pony
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Much
Really
Now
Thing
Started
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
Amy Poehler
You
Comedy
Every
Giant
Wearing
Like
Doing
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Pregnant
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.
Aries Spears
Jokes
Comedy
Seen
Before
Think
Kind
Able
Uncensored
Finish
Cable
Because
Been
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Really
Actually
When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake.
Ayobami Adebayo
Cake
Job
Tea
Sweet
Meetings
Characters
Would
Stay
Eat
Something
Drink
Write
Had
Taking
Hours
Dialogue
Breaks
Meals
Sketch
Forsake
Regular
Full-Time
Commute
Full-Time Job
Showers
Now
Desk
I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.
Bill Hader
Money
Ugly
Group
Pretty
Stuff
Like
Because
Were
Any
Sketch
Playing
My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's a lot more texture and subplot in drama than in comedy.
Bob Odenkirk
Experience
Comedy
Drama
Kind
More
Lot
Texture
Than
Just
Which
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Might
I steal props from 'SNL' a great deal. Almost every sketch I'm in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.
Bobby Moynihan
Great
Try
Space
Great Deal
Every
Something
Steal
Props
Almost
Deal
Grab
SNL
Storage
Sketch
Full
To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks.
Charles Best
Good
Tomorrow
Will
Build
Become
Design
Jobs
Must
More
Classrooms
Take
Students
Takers
Makers
Prototype
Test
Textbooks
Than
Sketch
Who
Need
Set
The whole thing with the Rick James story sketch and the Prince story sketch - I recounted my past, you know? - and that's what I was doing. It's not like I sat down and said I want to come up with a great story about Rick James. That stuff really happened.
Charlie Murphy
Great
You
Past
Down
About
Stuff
Great Story
Come
Like
Prince
Know
Said
Doing
Up
Want
James
Happened
Story
Sketch
Really
Rick
Sat
Whole
Thing
'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.
Chevy Chase
Weekend
Lot
Update
Sketch
Room
Full
Presented
I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.
Christian Louboutin
Time
Myself
Family
You
Balance
Phone
Building
Collection
Paris
Constructing
Like
Concentrated
Without
Isolate
Leave
Literally
Place
Sketch
Certain
Need
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
Dana Carvey
Comedy
Live
Seven
Television
Stayed
Variety
Almost
Well
Years
Loved
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical show.
Diana Quick
Topical
Weekly
Couple
Got
Terry
Hired
Did
Sketch
Then
Mike
Show
Shows
Palin
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.
Dianne Reeves
Jazz
Other
Record
About
Never
Idea
Perhaps
Involved
Talk
Another
Sketch
Really
Jazz Record
Elements
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