I Love Polarizing People.

[ 1600 Penn] Is An Ensemble Comedy About A Family. It Just Happens To Utilize The Fact That My Character Is Now Being Forced Into This World As A Jumping Off Point. But, In No Way Is It The Crux Of The Series. It's Simply An Introduction To The World.

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.

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.

Religion Is Interesting Because It Brings Out The Best And The Worst In Humanity. It Can Be A Source Of Good Deeds, Whether It's People From Different Spiritual Backgrounds Coming Together To Help Other People In Need After A Crisis. But It's Also A Cause For War And Bloodshed.

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."