Stephen Colbert Quotes About Performing

Quotes about: Performing

• Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

  Stephen Colbert

  Home, Thinking, Effort

  Slate's Working Podcast with David Plotz, October 17, 2014.

• Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Writing, Athletic, Intellectual

  Slate's Working Podcast with David Plotz, October 17, 2014.

• Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Closure, Dramatic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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