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

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

There's [John Mulaney Show] jokes that I have in stand up that I wouldn't try to put in, I would try to have someone just speak extemporaneously in the middle of a scene about an episode of "Law and Order" or something.

Things don't exist until they exist.

I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.