Casey Wilson
At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.Collection: Wedding
I didn't have the greatest ride on 'SNL,' but I always felt support from gay fans, which made me feel accepted within a place I didn't feel totally accepted.
There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.
My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.
On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.
I can never turn my creativity off.
I want to see a ton more comedy for women.
The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.
I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.
My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on 'SNL.' My mom and I would watch it a lot.
You only feel as good as your last sketch.
I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.
Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.
It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.
I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.
The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'
Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.
I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
I'm a voyeuristic American.
Debra Winger blows me away, always.
Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'
My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?
I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.
All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.
I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.
If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.
Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?
My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.
My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
Kenya Moore is everything to me. She's everything.
If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.
I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.
My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'
My goal is to generate more material for myself.
I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.
So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.
Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends.
I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.