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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.

— Richard Russo

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

— Matt LeBlanc

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.

— Ben Elton

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

— Robert Evans

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

— Rodney Carrington

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.

— Antonio Banderas

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

— Patricia Richardson

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Jim Parsons

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.

— Dylan Moran

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

— Faith Ford

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

— Jack Lemmon