You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind of comedy the Parks and Recreations show did not have - an insane person screaming at everyone, and our job going forward, as it is with all of our characters, is to develop him and make him more three dimensional.

Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.

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.

If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

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.