The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

I am not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn't.

Rule number one for the writers when we committed to the jump was: no hoverboards. No one is allowed to pitch that everyone is on hoverboards. It's going to be very very gently sci-fi.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.