fionashaw pod notes chekhov
How to Academy Podcast - Fiona Shaw - A life on Stage and Screen 26:11 'you said earlier in a way all theater is stand up comedy' ' comedy's quite hard to do becasue if you find it funny it really isnt funny. But of course, you have to find it funny. You have to know its funny, but you mustn't play that its funny, because the situation isnt funny, so i mean i think my pleasure has been finding comic moments in things like bedeyer?? or hedigabre? (cant work out what shes saying) which was very funny. and then of course, the evening is {.??} for the audience because they think its funny but then it really isnt funy. And i think a lot of really good drama does that. There should be nothing that doesnt have funny moments in it.' 'Comedy is often built on the gap between someones expectation and their failing to get it, but how they asssume they've got it.' 'Interviewer: THinking of Johnanthan Miller, so he used to say that he wouild go on the tube ...