The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's al...
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets ...
I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind of keep the body clean and perfect in a sense, you know? For instance, I always eat much better when I am in a show because you can't hav...
The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It w...
I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.
I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.
What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
I am a playwright who does not write comedies, or tragedies.
I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.
