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I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are just concentrating on 'ok, let's worry about just comedy today,' and there are days when you're like 'you know what, we gotta just beef up the story.'. But, it's not like process wise it's that technically separate. One informs the other, so they kinda all happen together ideally.

Harry [ Hannigan] and Chris [Ellis] are sitting there while we're doing [ Fresh Hell], and Chris is directing, obviously, but if we start fooling around a little bit, Harry comes in, and he's got some addition that makes it even funnier. But we start with a complete script.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.