American - Actor | April 9, 1968 -
'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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'Smokey and the Bandit' is tough and funny.
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You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
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I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
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I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.
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Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'
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Whether I'm performing or directing, I'm aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it's nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it's intentionally breaking the rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing.
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Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.
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If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.
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The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'
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A lot of the original people on 'SNL' came through Chicago - and Toronto, I'm sure - but Chicago was the center of it all. When I was there, Chris Farley - I knew him; we hung out and stuff - he went off to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was like, 'It's possible to be from here and make it.'
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I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.
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