If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.
Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.
I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.
Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy.
I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.
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The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.
If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
