Josh [gad] Does Such An Amazing Job

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.

Part Of Our Goal, In The Episodes Moving Forward, Is To Deepen And Dimensionalize Every Other Character, To Get Into Their Relationships With Each Other, Expand That Stuff And Really Sink Our Teeth In.

I Think “the Book Of Mormon” Has Made That Difference In Its Field. It Changed The Game. It’s Something That 20 Years From Now People Will Still Be Talking About, Hopefully. That’s My Goal As An Artist, As A Creator, As A Work For Hire, Is To Choose Projects That Make People Think, Make People Talk, And Make People Interested In Having A Dialogue.

It's Weird To Say, But Every Time I Look At My Daughter And I See This Little Living Breathing Thing That Came From Me, That Represents All Of The Hopes And Dreams That I Would Want For Her, I See A Miracle.

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."