Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's an art to comedy.
Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
There is a universality to comedy.
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.