Fred Goss
Fred Goss
Fred Gossis an American TV actor, director, writer, producer and comedian...
bring comedy format structured tv
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.
characters comedy laughing people possibly recognize related
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.
improvised knew people
I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.
hollywood shooting suburb sunset
It's set in a suburb of Cincinnati. But we're actually shooting at Sunset and Gower (in Hollywood).
bring chew days dialogue exist few line lines script strong throw within written
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.
bunch giving nick people second
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.
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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.
raw trying
We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.
bottomless pit
But it's also a bottomless pit for story ideas.
behind dialogue few nick writers
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.
bring casting character either expose normal percent process themselves willing
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.