We wanted a half-hour comedy that was not joke-driven in the traditional sense. You're laughing because you recognize the characters as people you're possibly related to yourself.
The casting process wasn't so much about them being a character, which is the normal way. The character had to become them.... You've got to bring 70 percent, 80 percent of yourself to the party. And an actor's either willing to expose themselves like that, or they're not.
I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.
But it's also a bottomless pit for story ideas.
It's set in a suburb of Cincinnati. But we're actually shooting at Sunset and Gower (in Hollywood).
The dialogue is all made up on the fly, but it's not all made up by the actors. There are a few writers and Nick and I behind the camera, and we're improvising as much as the actors are.
We wanted to try to see if we could take something as traditionally structured as a half-hour TV comedy format and actually bring improvisation to it.
Where I come from and where Nick comes from, there are a lot of divorces. People are giving it a second go-around on a bunch of different levels.
I?m not quite as neurotic.
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