I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
Now, with the success of musical comedy like the Mighty Boosh, Flight of the Conchords and Bo Burnham, I feel vindicated.
I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.
The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
More than an adult comedy, 'Great Grand Masti' is a naughty horror comedy, more on the lines of 'Masti.'
When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.
I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.
With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.
