MP: But, before Louie did that, if you tried to pitch that, they would be like, “This makes no sense.” If you watch Louie, it’s unpitchable. It’s ridiculous to think that industry people would ever think it was going to work.

While we were making Good Cop Great Cop, I think there was very much this idea that we have to show them what they want. For us, with this guy at Comedy Central, he called and said, “You guys have kind of a voice, more so than a lot of people that have only been doing it as long as you have. You have a thing.” He was just aware enough of what the creative process should be, and that he was able to be like, “You’re not making money or getting a million views, but I can see that you have something.” We never set out to do that on purpose, but we had this feeling of, “Let’s just try to build a body of work.”

CH: Which is a really different approach. We have colleagues and peers who have really thought very hard about exactly how to get a massive number of views, or to make something that is just consummately marketable, and then, I don’t know. I guess, for those people, there might be a little bit more of an answer in terms of the advice to give. I think there are probably some metrics involved in trying to get the maximum number of eyeballs on your thing, but for us, it was just like, there’s a combination of boredom and frustration and just really wanting to have a body of work that we could call our own, that started this whole thing.