“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.” WayTryingKindStoriesGoalEmotionClearComedyCuttingAchieveFiguresDramaScene Author:Luke Wilson
“I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.” PeopleFeelsTryingPersonsI CanImportantEyeAudienceComedyAchieveStageCommunicationEarsImportant ThingsContactCommunication SkillsPaceTuning Author:Bill Cosby
“If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.” IfsStuffLinesSituationComedyAchieveAbsurdSincereOne LinerJust Saying Author:Jeff Baena
“I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.” ThinkingWantBigsSongEnjoyComedyToo MuchFansAchieveEmotionalWasteJokesPayoff Author:Keith Murray
“There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.” ActingComedyAchievePersonalityPadsStand Up ComedyLaunching Author:Kevin Hart
“I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.” FirstsPersonsAgeFormYoungDifficultComedyFansAchieveUnderstoodComicTonePopeYoung AgeFirst PersonImmediacy Author:Kevin Keck
“Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.” TwoPlayCharacterStoriesFightingComedyAchieveHorrorGenreArenaFlawedThrillers Author:Kyle Cassie