At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.
The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.