One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.
Each medium has its own beauty and way of working. While television offers immense reach and long-running shows, films are shorter and they are presented differently. With theatre, it's the thrill of instant feedback.
It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.
I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the television medium is that you don't get that. You don't get that immediate response.
I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.
That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.
When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
That's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.
