Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
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It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's the same thing as what a comedian does. They're in the moment. They're listening.
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.