American - Actor | October 6, 1976 -
There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.
Brett Gelman
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It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.
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I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.
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I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
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At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.
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I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.
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I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners, and the Vince Gilligans. There's just so many people fearlessly making their stuff, you know?
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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.
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I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All of them taught me what kind of actor I should be and what was funny.
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I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
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I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.
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