Vanessa Bayer Professions : Actress Born : November 14, 1981 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Vanessa Bayer Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school. Vanessa Bayer women people school I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it. Vanessa Bayer intervention depressing knows There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are. Vanessa Bayer funny-kid teenager kids I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it. Vanessa Bayer age stuff people 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. Vanessa Bayer mitzvah bats weekend 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. Vanessa Bayer you drink tired crazy People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live. Vanessa Bayer great crazy busy people I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great. Vanessa Bayer really great sunday sleep 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. Vanessa Bayer great team work people 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. Vanessa Bayer joke friends dad funny Being sick is the reason I went into comedy. Vanessa Bayer being comedy sick reason 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. Vanessa Bayer me always sister funny I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something. Vanessa Bayer think you time funny With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot. Vanessa Bayer i-feel-like live feel like 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. Vanessa Bayer you fruit i-can together I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation. Vanessa Bayer meditate twice day meditation I can stay up watching TV so late. Vanessa Bayer stay watching late i-can 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. Vanessa Bayer looking cool looking-back believe 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. Vanessa Bayer cool you business people 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. Vanessa Bayer sketch group jokes ideas Similar Authors Beatrice Lillie actress Adepero Oduye actress Adrienne Barbeau actress Bindu actress Alexandra Breckenridge actress Bojana Novakovic actress All Authors
