Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
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There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the energy, but in comedy the feedback you get is more important. You can judge by the quickness and the length of the laugh just where you stand with the audience.
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.