I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
I don't know how you can do comedy once every two weeks. Ever since I started, if I'm off for three days, I got to learn how to do comedy again.
I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.
I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when I hit 30 and I had done everything I wanted to do in journalism, so I went to a comedy class. I figured I'd learn how to do five minutes and see how it feels.
After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.
I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.
Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy - at least, that's how I think.
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.