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All Quotes by author - Vanessa Bayer
" As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating. "
Young
Through
Going
" Being sick is the reason I went into comedy. "
Being
Reason
Comedy
" Cleveland gets crapped on a lot. "
Cleveland
Lot
Gets
" Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece. "
Table
Group
Ideas
" I can stay up watching TV so late. "
Late
Stay
TV
" I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something. "
Audience
Think
Funny
" I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous. "
Cool
Looking Back
Believe
" I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens. "
Know
People
Team
" I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business. "
Doing
Fun
Business
" I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great. "
Great
Lot
Really
" It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy. "
Tired
Drink
Crazy
" It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me. "
Funny
Kind
Like
" It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it. "
Saturday
Night
Live
" I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation. "
Day
Transcendental
Meditation
" I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it. "
Love
Depressing
Been
" I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you. "
Funny
Understand
You
" I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp. "
Home
Ohio
Counselor
" My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too. "
Joke
Over
Friends
" My fridge is usually pretty empty. If I can get it together to order FreshDirect, I will have some fruit and yogurt in the fridge. But there isn't a ton of stuff you would cook with. "
Fruit
Empty
Together
" People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live. "
Crazy
People
New York
" There always have been funny women. "
Always
Been
Women
" There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are. "
Aware
Funny
Teenagers
" The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. "
Bat
Fifty
Jewish
" To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works. "
Parents
Up
Brother
" With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot. "
Lot
More
Live
" You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it. "
Best
Learn
Humor
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