Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
My way of joking is to tell the truth
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."
I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.
When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
With the wacky jokes that we do on 'Great News,' you do overall still want to be coming from a place of truth with your character because, otherwise, it's just off the walls.
Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.
