Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
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I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.
Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.
If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.
I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.
Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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