More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.
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People are quite frequently eccentric.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.
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.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.