Studio Audience Quotes

I was hired as an assistant at 'SNL' in 2002.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.

I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.'

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

I've watched 'The Daily Show' forever. So being a part of it is surreal.

I'm loving being part of the 'Saturday Night Takeaway' family. I'm in my element chatting to random strangers and taking them back to the studio - in a helicopter of all things.

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.

If you want to do a talk show on network television, you're probably going to wind up having a desk and a band, wearing a suit, and having a sidekick. Audiences want to feel comfortable.

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

'Saturday Night Live' was 100% the most surreal TV we've ever done. Leonardo DiCaprio was on the same show.

A sitcom, you rehearse for four days of the week and then you shoot it all in one night in front of a studio audience. It's like a play every week, you just shoot it over a seven or eight-day period with a single camera. I enjoy this format of show much more. I'm a feature guy. I like making movies. So the four camera thing I didn't love it that much. I found myself slightly out of my element.

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.