Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.
Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.
Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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.
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