Julie Bowen looks back at her start in comedy and reveals that she didn’t think she was funny. In a new interview, the Modern Family star recalled her team booking auditions for comedic roles, which Bowen didn’t think were suited for her. “They sent me out on comedy auditions,” she said on The Three Questions with Andy Richter. “I was like, ‘I can’t tell a joke, I’m not funny — don’t give me those three-jokes-a-page kind of things.” She continued, “And my managers were always very supportive, like, ‘You know what?
Helen Hunt isn’t funny.’ I go, ‘What?’ They’re like, ‘Not technically.'” “I said, ‘She just won like five Emmys.’ They’re like, ‘Yes.
So she’s funny in a different way. She’s not three-jokes-a-page funny. And yet she is wildly funny. Try to be Helen Hunt,'” Bowen said.
Bowen would go on to book Modern Family, a comedy in which she starred for 11 seasons. The comedic star told Richter she “didn’t do too many jokes,” adding, “I fell down a lot.” Bowen said she felt more suited for dramedies like Ed, the NBC show she starred in for four seasons opposite Tom Cavanagh. “Ed was during when dramedy was a thing,” she said. “There was like Ally McBeal at the time.
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