You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
Harvey Korman
Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it. KYLE CHANDLER For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,... EMORY R. FRIE If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... JOHN GREEN Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO Life is a magical game so play it with love. DEBASISH MRIDHA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop chara... BLAKE ANDERSON When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Bekka treated her role has Frankenstein's bride more like an audition to be Brett's bride. Every par... LISI HARRISON You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I... SUGAR RAY LEONARD The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it ... A.M. DEAN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW! KAMAL KHANZADA Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul... DAVE PELZER If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. JAMES DYSON
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HARVEY PEKAR I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like pe... STEVE HARVEY I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And... HARVEY PEKAR There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world. GERRY HARVEY A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that... STEVE HARVEY In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ... HARVEY MACKAY . . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has be... WILLIAM HARVEY A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. HARVEY MACKAY For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. HARVEY MACKAY It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. HARVEY MACKAY There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wing... WILLIAM HARVEY Men can cheat because there are so many women willing to give themselves to a man who doesn’t belo... STEVE HARVEY As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighti... PAUL HARVEY Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture an... HARVEY KEITEL As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the... HARVEY MACKAY To say any method used in this case is unique such that it is a signature crime by any particular in... BRUCE HARVEY He's spending all this cash. He certainly didn't make it on a mayor's salary. He has to explain it f... BRUCE HARVEY You got a lot of smoke, and not a lot of fire. Everybody's out front taking money and at least using... BRUCE HARVEY They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the r... BRUCE HARVEY That human bond has to be there. It can't become impersonal. These are people they deal with everyda... BRUCE HARVEY We hope that if the state decides to bring someone else to trial that they will get some solace from... BRUCE HARVEY The result of the Ray Lewis case is that the only person to leave this courtroom with a conviction i... BRUCE HARVEY I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was... HARVEY PEKAR I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I s... HARVEY PEKAR Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make ... HARVEY MACKAY Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something,... HARVEY MACKAY Their two go-to guys took over from there. They both showed why they're all-state players. BUSTER HARVEY We aren't giving up. If we can find a way (at home Saturday against Daytona Beach), we'll be right b... BUSTER HARVEY We had them on the ropes a couple of times and he'd hit a 30-foot bank shot (just before the shot cl... BUSTER HARVEY