House of Lies - Small Scoop from Don Cheadle

Q: It seems like you haven’t done as many comedies as I figure you would considering how funny and wonderful you are when you do comedy.
DC: It’s not for lack of wanting to do them. Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there’s the Judd Apatow school, where they’re like okay, we know that, we’re going to do those. Or unless it’s something that’s far to the other side. I don’t know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you’re doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that’s like that. Yeah, I’ve wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy. There are a lot of comedic moments in the Ocean movies. This is a comedy. I’m about to do a Showtime thing that’s a comedy. So it’s not for lack of wanting to do them. It’s not wanting to be in that. It’s just that those things are hard to come by.

Q: What are you doing for Showtime?
DC: It’s a show called House of Lies. Kristen Bell is in it. Also Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson, Griffin Dunne. We start shooting next month.

Source: Collider