Billy Gardell

And I was lucky enough to get to do two of them.

You know, I did Mike and Molly and then Chuck.

Lori came up with another idea and said, I think you're right for this one, too, which is unheard of.

You know, that's two Super Bowls.

But Mike and Molly, it was at a weird time, man.

I was at a place where I was actually thinking about leaving Los Angeles and moving back to my hometown of Pittsburgh and maybe jumping on the radio there and having a good life just doing that.

And I was kind of at my rope's end out here.

And I told my friend who was going to put me on the radio show, Randy Baumann from WDVE, that...

I said, I'm going to ride out one more pilot season.

And that used to be a time out here where there'd be like a three-month stretch where they'd order 50 pilots.

And to give you perspective, nowadays they order five.

I mean, it's really shrunk down.

But you would try to get on a pilot and hope it got picked up.

So I said, I'm going to ride out one more pilot season.

And I only got, I want to say...

I remember it as six.

It might have been four auditions the whole three months, and the last one was Mike and Molly.

It was literally a Hail Mary into the end zone.

Hail Mary into the end zone, literally.

Yeah, I mean, I had no idea.