Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.
At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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