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You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

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.

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, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

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.

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.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.