11 Quotes by Fred Goss

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.

We write a very strong script. The dialogue just doesn't exist within it. We give the script to the actors and they have a few days to chew on it. Dialogue is never written down. It's generated while we're shooting. We'll throw the actors a line and see where they take it. They bring lines of their own.

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.

I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

We're just asking people to kind of look at how they're getting their comedy a little bit differently. Since it's not joke-driven in a traditional sense, the jokes are coming out of how we ratchet up the size of the elephant in the room. If you're invested in the characters and you're onboard with them on an emotional level, that laugh will come out of a relatable place.

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.

It's set in a suburb of Cincinnati. But we're actually shooting at Sunset and Gower (in Hollywood).

But it's also a bottomless pit for story ideas.