Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: Campus

MS: How do you think your experiences in Mee-Ow and Griffin's Tale shaped your view on comedy?

KS: They were both really great for learning how to work as a team and as an ensemble. As far as Mee-Ow goes that was sort of telling about competition in the workforce, trying to get a sketch in, you know, selling a sketch, trying. It was kind of tricky even though they're all your friends, everyone's really strongly assertive about what they think is funny. And also too I thought that being in Mee-OW and get that when you walk out on stage and everybody's a fan of the show before the show's even delivered. So it's the easiest show you'll ever get to do because you don't have to win the audience over which is something that I missed as soon as I got out of college.

MS: I think you're going to encounter that at this show too, to be honest.

KS: Oh that would be nice, yeah I hope so. (Laughs) It would be nice to come back to that, but we'll see….now I'm nervous.

MS: Don't be nervous, you have a good opening act.

KS :Yeah I can't wait to see them.

MS: What originally turned you on to stand-up?

KS: I first was interested in stand-up and basically after I graduated Northwestern all of my friends from Mee-Ow moved to LA and I moved to New York. And so all the sudden I was all by myself, so I started writing things just for me, and that's how it happened - It happened out of loneliness. It turned out to be great -because you don't have to rely on anyone else, you're in total control of whether it gets done and you go up places which led to everything else as far as acting goes.

MS: How is the comedy scene in New York different than the scene in LA?

KS: Well the UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre) in LA that's been going on for a few years now is definitely changing the landscape of comedy in LA. They have a great audience that comes back. Before that there wasn't places to perform in LA, it's really about getting there still isn't thank god they have that I've talked to so many comedians who just can't go up enough in front of an audience in LA because shows don't exist - as many as there are in New York. And the New York scene is flourishing and has been for last 8 years because there's tons of places in New York to host a show so lots of people do it. You could go up - I'll go up like two to three times a night and that's not even me working that hard. You could do a ton of shows here so you can consistently get better and better at what you do. And there's a great audience here to support it.

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