You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.
Michael SchurI 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."
Michael SchurIt's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.
Michael SchurMockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff.
Michael SchurI think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.
Michael SchurThe 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."
Michael Schur