Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I think comedy is no different now than it was at other points. It takes a long time to get good and know how to distill what makes you funny beyond the realm of standup, which is what I'm trying to do with 'Teachers Lounge.'

Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’ Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.