Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
Doing drama is a very welcome departure from comedy. Although I love doing both, I like to change it up a bit once in a while with roles in serious drama.
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.
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.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
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 feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.