Comedian-actor Damon Wayans shares his views on what’s missing in stand-up comedy.
“One of the other things I am working on in my stand-up is that nobody wants to be great anymore,” he told the San Francisco Examiner. “What happened to the desire to be great? Everybody is shooting for mediocrity. In my lifetime, I saw Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, The Beatles. What do we have now? Jon Gosselin? Flava Flav? Sarah Palin?”
“I’m learning that I don’t have to be angry to be an artist. All these years I thought that comedy comes from anger, but what I’ve realized is that anger is only a pilot light, not the flame, and you can control that flame.”
