With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.