With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite.

I don't like expectations.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

I've never been in a writer's room.