The World Motivation
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
“I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.”
— Jake Johnson · Audience
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.
I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.
When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can't kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever's going to happen, it's all okay because there's no way they can kill the star.
When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.