Working with David Gordon Green and Jonah Hill and Michael Cera and Drew Barrymore and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know that's my goal to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah we do all hang out and we all kind of know each other.
I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy but it's more like pop psychology not a course of treatment or anything. To me it's more like social intelligence.
It takes intelligence to make real comedy and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
I was a precocious only child and then I went through a fat awkward stage for several years so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive so I think it was more of a natural progression for me developing into comedy.
And you know whether it's drama or comedy the best work is based on truth. It's just that with comedy the circumstances are just crazy-heightened and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.
Every time I've done comedy in like traditional comedy clubs there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just you know doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing like very kind of base sex humor a lot and stuff like that.