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Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

There's an art to comedy.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.