Danny McBride

It's awesome.

It's nice that people are positive.

I think like everything, it just all depends on the people that you happen to be around when you go.

You could have the greatest church in the world, and if the people in charge are assholes, then it's not going to be the same as going to another church where maybe they're not.

You know, we, we surprisingly had a lot of people that went to church that watched the show.

And I think, I bet.

Yeah.

Part of it was like, you know, one of my like rules in the writer's room was that I never wanted a religion to be the butt of any jokes.

Like I didn't want belief to be what we were making fun of.

Like that felt too easy.

It felt cheap.

You know, I actually went around before I did the show, I went and I interviewed like a bunch of different mega church pastors, uh,

I didn't tell them what I was working on, but I just kind of like – and everybody was always gracious.

People opened up their doors to me.

And I wasn't asking questions about religion.

I was asking questions about the business of it, like when it's time to expand or when it's time to do another one or when to shut one down.

Because it's interesting.

It is like, you know, you would think that, all right, well, they would decide to put a church somewhere because, you know, there's no churches in that town.

They were like, no, it's the exact opposite.

You put a church where there's already a bunch of people going to church because you know you have the audience there.