Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.
I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.
It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.
Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.
I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.
I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
