Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.