Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
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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.
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
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.
To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
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.
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.
To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.