At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
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.
There is a universality to comedy.
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
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.