Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
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A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.