Summing Up How to Write Sketch Comedy Like SNL. That was a pretty in-depth look at what it's like to write sketch comedy and how you can work on refining and shooting some of your ideas.

They started at Studio 8H. Take a look at some of the most well-known names to ever work from behind the scenes at Studio 8H.

Soon, I find out no one is angrier about the sketch ‘Lamps’ than Lorne Michaels, who I thought picked it, so I’m not sure what happened. But I came in the next day, on Thursday, for rewrites.

Ferrell attributed the ability to pen that sketch alone to his writing background within the Groundlings comedy group, and compared it to the more calamitous improvisational nature of UCB.

Don't ask Tina Fey if she wrote your least favorite Saturday Night Live sketch. She might not tell the truth. Fey began working at SNL as a writer in 1997, and was promoted to head writer in 1999 ...

Klein explained that his fellow SNL writers were "already pissed off" just seeing the sketch's title."If we had called it 'Lamp Store,' they would have thought it was normal. We called it 'Lamps ...

“Sketch Comedy allows us to skewer the foibles of human nature and our modern society — it’s good practice to laugh at ...

Schur, a former SNL writer who left the sketch comedy show in 2005 to write for The Office, said the 2008 digital short “didn’t feel right to me in some way”.