Simon Pegg on standup

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on September 30th, 2008

He’s the star of “Shaun of the Dead” and he’s promoting his latest film, “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,” by giving interviews like this one, to Canada.com.

Here’s the slice that caught our attention:

“I think comedy is underrated as an art form. People readily acknowledge a piece of theatre as art, but not standup, and not comedy. I have a hard time with that because I think standup is the most immediate form of performance you can get. But it will never get respect, and comedies will never win the Oscar,” he says.

“But think about it. When you tell a joke, people either laugh, or they don’t. The way to gauge success is straightforward. In a play, it’s not so easy to tell if your audience is with you or not, and in a play, you can hide behind objective criteria for a critical opinion,'” says Pegg.

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