If you can walk away from a comedy thinking it was funny yet also feeling good about the people you watched and the journey they went on, then all the better.

We try to find big, funny moments that are going to make people laugh and talk about the next day, but if we can get people emotionally invested in these characters as well, (they're) going to want to come back week after week,

I'd be thinking, short term, people want comedy, but who's to say where the public's mindset will be a few years from now. In the Cold War people couldn't get enough science fiction.

People used to think you couldn't ask someone if they're thinking about suicide, because that might lead to them committing suicide. But that's been disproved. Ask them if they've thought about how they would do it (and) if they have a plan on how they would do it. (If they have) they need help immediately.

He'll say some pretty funny stuff at the expense of a lot of people in the audience, but then he'll come back and redeem himself five minutes later.

It's kind of like a crazy comedy. And funny from the standpoint that there are so many different characters, like the nosy neighbors, they just come in and take over. And some of their lines are just so funny.