For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.
I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.