Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.
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You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
There is a universality to comedy.
Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.
I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
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