comedies like standup, Next is xue or imitate.
Comedies are fiction.
comedies I did one movie Happy Gilmore and have any of you seen Happy Gilmore
Romantic comedies .
No comedies ?
I loved comedies , movies, and TV shows, and stuff.
But the increase in comedies that I've been doing, is just over the past several years there's just been such a boom in comedy right now.
And you write these comedies of errors and the absurdity of everyday life.
Even the comedies were dark.
Seth Rogen comedies do well for us.
I like gangster comedies .
know um the certain comedies uh like 30 Rock I believe is almost joke based um
who have to make comedies that they think are kind of stupid and violent movies that they may not love these are
Did you look at other buddy comedies like maybe "Midnight Run" or "The Odd Couple" or any number of classic-- you're always dealing with polarities in those,
What is your feeling about American comedies today in the movies?
What do you think about American comedies today versus stuff we talked about earlier, like "The Graduate," like "The Odd Couple," like what we used to do,
Growing up I loved romantic comedies .
I get-- I've done a lot of standup comedies , so it's nice to have that audience feedback versus during the pandemic, we switched to the online medium, which
She's on a series of shows and comedies going on.
that person's life some of them are little comedies little sketches I SP to Rick waitan if you know who he is who's
So for example, comedies are a great example.
In the last 15 years there have been amazing comedies .
Some of the most inventive work in movies have been comedies .
And yeah I mean the thing about the comedies I've done is to me at the time when, when I had met Judd Apatow and all these guys you know like and we all started working together,
And then I decided that I was going to do one of Shakespeare's comedies .
Yeah, I think there are some comedies that start with like a depressed parent or something who is not happy with their life and whatever.
And better than most comedies , a sense of social justice.
He goes, I want to make $100 million comedies with any of these two stars-- Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell.
I've just had this funny career where I started out doing comedies , and then I ended up doing more serious roles.
They're not drawing room comedies you can make very cheaply.
That he's going to polish it and test it and make sure that the comedies working but not overshadowing the action and not overshadowing the drama.
And again, there are just so many romantic comedies out there that I think we also feel like we didn't have a lot
It was a water cooler shows, those NBC comedies , "Seinfeld" or whatever.
He done a lot of directing in comedies before.
Our guest today at YouTube is an actor who has appeared in some of the comedies that defined the last decade.
you see an indicator of this um everyone said one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time is It Happened One
and in fact the same joke is in one of aristophanes's comedies so we know that this was you know is that a book in your
before that, you know, Hollywood's gonna start making comedies again.
But I would constantly test for big, funny broadcast comedies .
I write novels, the kind that are sometimes called comedies of manners.
And as you mentioned, some of your books are sex comedies .
It's almost like, I think this way sometimes when you watch Ben Stiller's comedies .
He's a serious actor, and he doesn't get to do comedies .
And I enjoy in this that it doesn't take the normal slapstick kind of silly turns that romcoms-- romantic comedies -- do in most cases.
and how we actually practice it-- and I mean, everything from romantic comedies to the stories we tell each other about our own relationships to the stories we
Even comedies like "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective," spoiler alert for those of you haven't seen it,
Tonally it's so exciting because I find straight drama or just big, broad comedies both of them equally dry.
Comedy 's tough. I'm having a hard time finding comedies that actually make me laugh.
They're not inherently just frothy, and the stuff of romantic comedies .
Maybe we'll write some hilarious marriage comedies .