The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
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If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.
To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.
Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.
I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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