I don't know if there's a strategy really so much as, like I learned doing standup and had to learn fast, you always just try to give your favorite, strongest stuff as early as possible and you start with what you like the most.

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.

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.

I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

Understudies don't normally get invited to openings.