When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
There is a universality to comedy.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.