CG: Sometimes I like delivering ideas onstage through a microphone like every other comic and sometimes I like experimenting with how else we can make people laugh.

CD: I feel like someone else running this show would have found a few bits that work and then just repeated them every time. But you deliberately experiment every time. That’s actually become the show itself.

CG: I just think failing is kind of fun. It’s more fun than succeeding after a certain point. I look back and I’ve done so many improv shows in my life. When I get together with friends I haven’t seen in a long time, we never talk about the good shows. We talk about the disasters. We talk about the times we got heckled or where we went on a show at a college and no one showed up and we went on for literally zero people. Those are the stories you remember. Disaster stories are more fun. I just might aim for that a little bit more bald-facedly.

And I think I’m good at failing. I’ve developed a pretty thick skin and it doesn’t bother me that much. I kind of think the most interesting things, comedically, happen when you’re in the middle of a total disaster.

CD: Also, if you look for where the audience of TCGS seems to get the most sheer delight it’s those moments of you saying “Oh no. I can’t believe this is happening right now on my show.”

CG: And it’s usually genuine. All of my writers and collaborators know to torture me. I think we’ll continue to do that on Comedy Central if they give us a chance. It’s kind of strange because I feel like our muscle that we practice and strengthen the most is kind of like failing and doing things that probably won’t work. But on the broad level we’ve gotten pretty good at that, so hopefully we can keep doing it.