Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
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.
There is a universality to comedy.
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.