I was being flirted with for ‘Modern Family,’ which my wife still hasn’t let me live down, but it’s one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn’t be any more perfect. It wouldn’t have been right for me, and I wouldn’t have been right for it.
When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on ‘SNL,’ and that was all I could imagine.
When you’re doing a show like ‘The Book of Mormon,’ you’re completely spent by the time the show is over.
Part of our goal, in the episodes moving forward, is to deepen and dimensionalize every other character, to get into their relationships with each other, expand that stuff and really sink our teeth in.
When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I’m responsible for this tiny person. It’s so surreal.
There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.
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.
I’m unfortunately very verbose too often.
I was trained as a straight dramatist.
I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.