Expanded Interview Questions
Megan Cramer
Tory Ross
Nick and Tony Weiss
- How does comedy influence you on a personal level and a social level?
- What do you appreciate most in humor? What kind of humor resonates with you?
- When bringing a script to life, how do you bring humor into scenes that do not seem to have much inherent comedic value.
- From your personal experience, what is the most common or most important piece of direction to give your actors to bring out the humor in a scene?
- Do you think humor is universal?
Tory Ross
- How does comedy influence you on a personal level and a social level?
- What has your years of professional comedic acting taught you about jokes and their deliveries?
- Can being in the physical presence of the scenes and characters elevate the comedic value of a performance in comparison to a medium such as film?
- What does music add to or subtract from comedy?
- Do you think humor is universal?
Nick and Tony Weiss
- How does comedy influence you on a personal level and a social level?
- What opportunities for comedic storytelling and delivery are created by the film medium that are impossible to convey through other forms?
- What makes an effective visual gag?
- How does editing make or break a joke?
- Do you think humor is universal?