In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.
I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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.
It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.
I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.