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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

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.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

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.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

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.