'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy.
Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don't get grouped as 'dad comics.'
The word 'supportive' has no place in stand-up comedy. I hate when people are like, 'Support female comedy.' That's not a real genre of comedy. I think if you have true respect for women as three-dimensional creators who are innovative, you wouldn't group them together like that.
While there are different genres of comedy, I am for family entertainment.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.
I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.
Fleabag' is its own genre. It isn't comedy. It isn't drama. It isn't even tragi-comedy.
My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out comedies, such as the 'Shopaholic' series.
As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.
Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.
I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.
I've always hated the term 'alternative'; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called 'alternative' comedy.
What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.
Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.
Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.
A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.
