If the shoe fits, you must wear it.
One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.
You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.
I don't like to read novelizations of movies.