Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night and do a lot of stand-up, improv, and sketch work in New York. It really is invaluable. I think it pounded into me an awareness of what an editor wants and needs, in terms of clarity of a moment, where and when to start and stop a line.

When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.

Who among us wouldn't rush out and buy a Pepsi if we thought it would make the Osborne's disappear?

As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.

I didn't mention the tooth thing to anyone until it became clear that...we started to discuss just taking it out of the movie [The Hangover] because we couldn't find anything that worked and they couldn't afford to do a full like digital effect. So that's when I called my dentist and it worked out.