At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.
I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
There is a universality to comedy.
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
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