Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.
I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.
You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.
All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.
But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.
I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.
Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing it. So I must be really into it.
Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.
As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.
