“ A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. ”
I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
~ Chevy Chase
Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'