Lots of people go into comedy thinking it will be a good bridge into acting. They'll do stand-up, maybe get an HBO special, and then--at last!--a sitcom, the gold at the end of the rainbow. Once I got into stand-up, I thought the very same thing. I believed comedy would help my acting career, that it would break the ice about my hearing impairment. However, things didn't go quite as smoothly as I had hoped.
Lots of people go into comedy thinking it will be a good bridge into acting. They'll do stand-up, maybe get an HBO special, and then--at last!--a sitcom, the gold at the end of the rainbow. Once I got into stand-up, I thought the very same thing. I believed comedy would help my acting career, that it would break the ice about my hearing impairment. However, things didn't go quite as smoothly as I had hoped.