Vanessa Bayer

“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.”

“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.”

“I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.”

“The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.”

“Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.”

“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.”

“People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.”

“I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.”

“It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.”

“I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.”

“That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.”

“I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There always have been funny women.”

“Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.”