People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.
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I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.
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.
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.
For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.
I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.