Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.
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