Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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 always found the dramatic side of things easier than the comedy, because there's so many ways to do comedy, and it's also subjective. Someone might not laugh at what you do, whereas if you're going to do a dramatic scene, there's usually only one way you can do it.
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.
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.
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.