When I Left College, I Was Out

Josh [gad] Is Such An Amazing Improviser And Is So Good When The Material Is Flowing From Him That Sometimes, If A Written Scene Isn't Working Quite Right, I'll Tell Him That We've Got It And That He Can Just Play. He'll Blow Us Away With Some Super Weird Stuff And Some Wild Things That We Might Use Bits And Pieces Of In The Edit, And Then I'll Say, "just For Good Measure, Let's Do One More Of The Scripted Version."

I Was Like A Borscht Belt Comedian Trapped In The Body Of A 6-year-old. I Was Channeling Jackie Mason At 7.

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.

I Don't Know If I'd Call Myself A Prodigy, But I Was A Big Forensics Competitor In High School, And Then During College I Spent Some Time Working At Speech And Debate Camps As A Coach.

Josh Gad And I Have Been Friends Since The Time He Auditioned For Modern Family. I Directed The Pilot For That, And That's How We Met.