So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.