Fred Goss
Fred Goss
Fred Gossis an American TV actor, director, writer, producer and comedian...
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.
improvised knew people
I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.
bottomless pit
But it's also a bottomless pit for story ideas.
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.
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.
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.
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.