That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny.
Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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