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I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice. ”
It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on. ”
Comedy is taken care of by a free market. ”
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.' ”
You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry. ”
Big studio comedies are such a headache. ”
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on. ”
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama. ”
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other. ”
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. ”