I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.
There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny.
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.
I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.
If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier
I don't have any favourites, but I like situational comedies, not forced ones.
