I personally find this bullshit and find im most comfortable acting comical parts. I find serious roles harder because i cant work with audience reaction as well. serious roles are just boring. I try to fit in humour as much as i can, or upstage seriousness in a scene. I just love experimenting with comic timing. what do you people think about comedy?
comedy is a lot easier to do without feeling cheesy. i have great difficulty really getting into dramatic roles, but i like to undertake it as a challenge sometimes. it's annoying though because it's hard for me to play a part with a really devastating plot line without almost crying during one of the more intense monologues or scenes, and that really ruins it. so i usually stick to comedy. love doing impersonations, routines, singing crude songs, or acting in humorous plays. the sound of an audience's laughter is such a powerful spur.
The thing about comedy is that you can sometimes overact or just act stupid and still get the desired effect. When you're in a serious role, you're in a serious role. Any overacting would ruin the part, IMHO.
it depends on the actor. Jim Carry tends to overact making him just seem stupid. but it is easier to judge the audience's reaction with comedy bits. Well anyway i am getting hungry and tired and so I'm a bit slow now lol. ttyl everyone gilli
i like to do characters that are overacted but its how the character works, you know? i think it doesnt have anything to do with jim careys sort of overacting, i just like to give my character the msot presence, comically and dramatically. lol its so immaturely egotistic
With comedy you have to deal more with hecklers in your audience. I was doing a semi-comedic act two nights ago at a new venue and had to deal with my first heckler. The guy kept trying to interrupt the novelty song I was performing with racial slurs. I'm asian, and he kept yelling out asking me to play "She Bangs". In the 18 years I've been performing on stage I've never had a problem like this. I told him that I just don't do that song. On the flip side, the rest of the audience was totally with me and clapped and stomped on the floor with delight to the rhythms. They more than made up for the drunken idiot who thought I looked like William Hung. What would you do if someone made a comment like that? This is yet another episode in this strange adventure I'm having since I was forced to move to the city of Los Angeles from the sweet little northern hippy town I used to live in. Since I've moved here people have given me so much shit about going barefoot everywhere, having long hair, and singing weird songs about dinosaurs. But it's not everyone who makes those comments- just the sad unfortunate ones who have been stuck living in this gawdawful place all their lives and freak out whenever they witness anything that doesn't fit into their tiny bubble of experience.
Acting wise, I find comedy to be easy. But it really depends on you. Comedy is really trying to see something from a different perspective. You often have to look at situations that would be very serious if you were in them and turn them into something light and funny. Some people have trouble doing that. Stand-up comedy I've only done a couple of times. Writing material is very easy. Performing it is another story. Never dealt with a heckler, but I think it's more bothersome when people don't laugh, because you don't know what to do- keep going with what your saying in the hopes that it will pick up, or try something else.
dealt with hecklers , done drama, done comedy, and love tragedy, I love comedy more because you know when the audience is into it, they're feeling your energy and you're feeling their's it's a bueatiful thing when you can fall on your face and people respect that you have injured yourself for their amusement (or not if you know how to do it) Drama is good if you just want a straight line part though, you don't get near as much audience feedback but if it's really goods it can be satisfying anyway, in full truth though I'm a techie, stage manager, prop manager, lighting designer, and set moving troll all rolled into one
When in a serious production, it's hard when you finally get to an audience and start hearing reactions not to abandon the integrity of the role and milk for a laugh when you're instincts tell you to. I prefer the serious, because if it's well written, there are always elements and moments of jocularity and humor that the audience responds to in a much greater degree than they would in a straight comedy, simply in light of the contrast of high emotion.
Comedy is much harder for me, because I can't keep a straight face. I find dramatic roles really easy and natural because I can use more emotion with it. Comedy just doesn't flow naturally with me.
haha i find it hard sometimes when unexpected things happen on stage during a comedy the thing i love best is when a problem arises and youve got to work around it. improvise, but in the role, and have a direction you have to go and get to and fit in. it makes it even funnier when you can do that, but because of the nature of its sponatnuity, i find it hard not to laugh at my own humour sometiems haha i mean, people say its up yourself to laugh at your own jokes.. but if they dont make you laugh then why would you say them in the first place? lol if i dont laugh at a joke of my own at some point, then i dont find it funny, and so its generally unintentional. what do you ppl recon about laughing at your own jokes? new thread.. maybe in random
