You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
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In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.
It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
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.
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.
You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.
What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.