Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.
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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.
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.
