"The Doula" was and is a very, very special episode to me because I think it's very funny and very weird and it also is 100 percent based on my life, in that I fainted three times during Sex Ed in real life the three different years.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

I really set out to do this traditional looking and traditional sounding multi-cam sitcom, but then make the world as elastic as an animated show could be. Make the world as surreal as we wanted it to be.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.