In Real Life, Josh [gad]

We Use Improv In All Kinds Of Fun Ways. Sometimes It's To Invent Or Discover New Things, Sometimes It's To Weird Out The Other Actors, And Sometimes It's To Create A Sense Of Fun, To Find New Things Inside The Scripted Lines.

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.

[ 1600 Penn] Is An Ensemble Comedy About A Family. It Just Happens To Utilize The Fact That My Character Is Now Being Forced Into This World As A Jumping Off Point. But, In No Way Is It The Crux Of The Series. It's Simply An Introduction To The World.

When I Left College, I Was Out Of Work For Three Years. I Had This Dream Of Being On 'snl,' And That Was All I Could Imagine.

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."