If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
In real life, comedians aren't funny.
People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
It's tricky: with comedy in any movie, you're hungry for an audience to embrace a movie and be a part of an experience that's comedic; it's the easier way to go in some ways.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.