The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

"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.

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 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.

Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.