I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
I've met Jon Glaser who has a show on Adult Swim call Delocated and he's the main writer we hired for the show. That's really my brand of humor, I would say.
Steven Wright can do Steven Wright very well. Not everyone can do Steven Wright's jokes with the same results.
The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'
I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
I'm not a confrontational person or comedian. I think we can explore more things if one of us is not fighting with the other. I take it easy. But I do like comedians who are very different from myself: I love dry comics with deadpan one-liners. I look on and think, 'That's amazing; why didn't I think of that?'
I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.
The really funny comedies to me are always the ones that are played the straightest or given the most emotional content. And when people start making faces and setting things up and commenting and winking at you, I don't find that to be very funny.
But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.
Where I come from people are very deadpan with a dry humour that I suppose rubbed off on me.
I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.
