How does writing sketch comedy differ from other types of comedy?
Where you have twenty two minutes in a sitcom to get a story out, in a sketch comedy show you have only four minutes to get a story out. So that’s an obvious talent. So, how do you tell that story. Well just pack it with jokes, and establish the characters in that brief amount of time. It’s an art. There are people that do it very, very well; others who try and just don’t know how to do it.
