It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
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When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.
Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.
It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.
I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.
Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.