Comedy can't be about continuous success.
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.
On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.
What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.
Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not...
I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.
But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
We're more effective than birth control pills.
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
