When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
You cannot have the drama without comedy.
Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.