Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.
Rehearsals are for gags.
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.
Brent Weinbach made [Gangster Party Line].I guess I saw it when it first came out. And that is so goddamn funny to me. The guys are real dudes and they're not good, but they're also good enough.
I once played Jennifer Lopez's werewolf body double in a sketch. I don't think anyone was shocked when the sketch got cut after dress rehearsal.
The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.
In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.
I remember seeing Amy Sedaris in a stint where she played somebody's alcoholic mother in one scene and in the next she was Ross Perot. I remember thinking she was so awesome.
We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
Comedy is a lot of fun if you have costars who can help you perform better.
I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
