I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions, I've got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy because I actually like jokes and don't just do observational stuff.
After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.
The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.
Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.
Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.'
Thereβs a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldnβt fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.
