Josh [gad] Does Such An Amazing Job

I Met Jon Lovett, Who Was Just Coming Off Of Three Years Of Being A Presidential Speech Writer And Had Just Arrived Here To Be A Comedy Writer In Hollywood. I Thought He Was Super Green, In Terms Of This World, But He Knows So Much About The World That We're Attempting To Write About.

Melissa Mccarthy Just Opened This New Movie, “identity Thief,” And Rex Reed, Who’s A Known Critic, Wrote A Scathing Commentary On Her Weight. I Think That Weight Designation Is One Of The Last Frontiers Of Bullying. I Don’t Know What The Right “ism” For It Is, But I Think That There’s A Level Of That That’s Happening That’s Certainly Not Okay.

I Think “the Book Of Mormon” Has Made That Difference In Its Field. It Changed The Game. It’s Something That 20 Years From Now People Will Still Be Talking About, Hopefully. That’s My Goal As An Artist, As A Creator, As A Work For Hire, Is To Choose Projects That Make People Think, Make People Talk, And Make People Interested In Having A Dialogue.

I Was Trained As A Straight Dramatist.

We Use Improv In All Kinds Of Fun Ways. Sometimes It's To Invent Or Discover New Things, Sometimes It's To Weird Out The Other Actors, And Sometimes It's To Create A Sense Of Fun, To Find New Things Inside The Scripted Lines.