I'm definitely not frowning on improv; I mean, I've been doing it for years. I just think that there's some styles of comedy that warrant a tighter pace.
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
I do longer runs on things, a lot stories. I really like one-liners, I like a lot of different kinds of standup but I've always been long-winded.
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.
All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
