“I find that when comedies start out being written as a comedy,” he elaborated, “you end up having to drill down to get the emotion... I think you’ve gotta have a real story, real stakes. That’s why I love playing with genres, taking the story to dark places. That fear makes the comedy funnier.”
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| The cast of Bridesmaids, directed by Paul Feig |
As he explains it, no matter how funny your jokes are, you need an airtight plot in order to sustain an audience’s attention. If you try to do a comedy that’s just all jokes, “They better be the funniest stuff in the world,” he warned. “And even then it’s hard to keep the crowd with you.”
“Out of the gate, you’ve gotta make an audience best friends with your character,” he insisted. “Once they care, then it’s funny. Then you can subvert expectations.”
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