I Do Have A Dirty Sense Of

I Was A Product Of A Divorced Family And I Used Humor As A Weapon To Combat Sadness. I Used Comedy To Make My Mother Laugh In Light Of The Darkness That She Faced, And To Me It Became A Very Powerful Tool At A Very Young Age, At Six. I Saw How Therapeutic It Could Be.

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 Love Polarizing People.

I Met Jon Lovett, Who Was Just Coming Off Of Three Years Of Being A Presidential Speech Writer And Had Just Arrived Here To Be A Comedy Writer In Hollywood. I Thought He Was Super Green, In Terms Of This World, But He Knows So Much About The World That We're Attempting To Write About.

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.