I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.
Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.