“The older I get, the more I feel like I’m not as concerned as I was when I was younger with the specific joke as I am with setting up the preconditions for actors to be free to do their best work. I think it’s partly because I have the luxury of working with good improvisers — especially Nick, but also Jon Daly, Jenny Slate, Chelsea Peretti, Jason Mantzoukas, John Mulaney — these people are all great improvisers where we give them scripts and I like the scripts, but it’s about something bigger happening in the dynamic of the scene.”
