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[from 'last interview ]
You talked about how comedy's all about incongruities, contrasts, exaggeration. Do you think about those techniques or those principles of humor consciously?
It happens automatically. Sometimes there’s a conscious heightening, you'll recognize you've just chosen an image to make a point. Then your mind will just suddenly throw something at you that's stronger—a heightening, to raise the stakes, a stronger word, a more visceral image, something that lights up the imagination, much better than the original thought. So you’re aware that you’re heightening and exaggerating further but you don't use the word exaggeration or anything like that. All that stuff is just happening. And sometimes, afterward, I’ll look at something and say, “If I were giving a lecture comedy, That Would be a good example. "I Often Think In Those terms.
[ ITA]
You said that comedy is made up of inconsistencies, conflicts, exaggeration. Think of certain techniques or knowingly laws of comedy?
happens naturally. Sometimes it's conscious lighting: you realize that you've taken a picture of necessity. Then suddenly your mind shows you something that is much stronger: raises its game, as saying. Maybe a more precise word, a more visceral, something that lights the imagination, something much better than the first thing you thought. In a sense, you know you're forcing it, but would not define it that way. And 'is happening. Sometimes I think of a thing in this way and I say to myself "If I held a lecture on humor, this would be the perfect example." I often think this way.
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