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.
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.
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
