There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how instantly relatable it was. We loved how little exposition was required to tell people who these guys were and what they were doing.

If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick.

The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

Greg the Bunny,' the comedy television show that I co-created, happened almost by accident. Dan Milano, Spencer Chinoy and myself made a public access show that caught the eye of IFC, and it has had three incarnations since then with a season on Fox.