Step One:

• Introduce the Apparently Funny Concept. These may include: people with kooky catchphrases, people who wear wacky outfits, or hilarious stereotypes! Mix all three for a potent Hilarity Cocktail! Yummers!

Step Two:

• Reiterate, but do not escalate, the joke. The arc of a good comedy sketch should be a single flat line going from Point A to Point B! Examples might include: saying the same catchphrase multiple times throughout the sketch, or, continuing to be stereotypey in the same way! Remember — if something is funny once, it’s funny when you do it without modification three or four times in a row! Tip! Get a special surprise celebrity guest to reiterate the joke, and you’ll knock ‘em dead! Bam!
  

Step Three:

• Do not end the sketch. Simply allow it to naturally run out of steam. The sketch should be just like our lives, and must expire lonely in an empty room while laying in a pile of its own sick. It should fall asleep before it reaches any notable conclusions about its existence, and then leave this life and enter the cold comfort of death’s embrace. Remember — viewers don’t like it when we subvert expectations or change the formula! A joke is best felt in the Laughter Organs when it lays there like a fish flopping on a dock.

Congratulations! You just wrote a Saturday Night Live sketch!