Humor is difficult. Other kinds of stories don't have to hit the bull's-eye. The outer rings have their rewards too. A story can be fairly suspenseful, moderately romantic, somewhat terrifying, and so on. This is not the case with humor. A story is either funny or it is not funny. Nothing in between. The humor target contains only a bull's-eye.
Isaac Asimov, I, Asimov, 1996
Isaac Asimov, I, Asimov, 1996
I have been told by reliable sources that humor or comedy is also the most difficult type of acting to master as well. It's easier, they said, for a comic actor to do drama than for a dramatic actor to do comedy.
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