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Jimmy O. Yang (performing a bit)

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Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

It doesn't feel like you're, you know, writing a script and then just hoping that he'll, you know, that the actor will like want to do it more than once. It's a constant dialogue with him. It's a constant discussion and experimentation and a poking and prodding at the script to make sure we're getting it right. There's just no substitute for that.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

It doesn't feel like you're, you know, writing a script and then just hoping that he'll, you know, that the actor will like want to do it more than once. It's a constant dialogue with him. It's a constant discussion and experimentation and a poking and prodding at the script to make sure we're getting it right. There's just no substitute for that.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

It doesn't feel like you're, you know, writing a script and then just hoping that he'll, you know, that the actor will like want to do it more than once. It's a constant dialogue with him. It's a constant discussion and experimentation and a poking and prodding at the script to make sure we're getting it right. There's just no substitute for that.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And it's, you know, one of the many reasons I love him.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And it's, you know, one of the many reasons I love him.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And it's, you know, one of the many reasons I love him.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Well, it's simply a question that I've been asking myself for a really long time. I used to play this game as I drove around in traffic in L.A. where someone would cut me off on the freeway or we would be in traffic and someone would pull onto the shoulder and speed past me and cut the line.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Well, it's simply a question that I've been asking myself for a really long time. I used to play this game as I drove around in traffic in L.A. where someone would cut me off on the freeway or we would be in traffic and someone would pull onto the shoulder and speed past me and cut the line.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Well, it's simply a question that I've been asking myself for a really long time. I used to play this game as I drove around in traffic in L.A. where someone would cut me off on the freeway or we would be in traffic and someone would pull onto the shoulder and speed past me and cut the line.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And as a way of trying to stem off what you would call road rage, I would play a game in my head where I would say that guy just lost 10 points. Like I was imagining a scenario in which there was some kind of omniscient observer of human behavior. And I satisfied my own anger or displeasure with other people by imagining that that cost them in some cosmic way.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And as a way of trying to stem off what you would call road rage, I would play a game in my head where I would say that guy just lost 10 points. Like I was imagining a scenario in which there was some kind of omniscient observer of human behavior. And I satisfied my own anger or displeasure with other people by imagining that that cost them in some cosmic way.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And as a way of trying to stem off what you would call road rage, I would play a game in my head where I would say that guy just lost 10 points. Like I was imagining a scenario in which there was some kind of omniscient observer of human behavior. And I satisfied my own anger or displeasure with other people by imagining that that cost them in some cosmic way.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And so after Parks and Recreation ended and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was up and running and my friend Dan Gore who created with me was running that show every day. NBC very kindly said, you can sort of do whatever you want, and we'll give you at least one season on the air.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And so after Parks and Recreation ended and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was up and running and my friend Dan Gore who created with me was running that show every day. NBC very kindly said, you can sort of do whatever you want, and we'll give you at least one season on the air.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And so after Parks and Recreation ended and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was up and running and my friend Dan Gore who created with me was running that show every day. NBC very kindly said, you can sort of do whatever you want, and we'll give you at least one season on the air.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

So I had been thinking about that game I played in my head about other people and about myself and judging my own behavior and doing things that I knew were maybe slightly iffy and how many points I lost or how many points I gained when I did certain things. And so that became the idea that I just liked the most of the ideas that I had. And I

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

So I had been thinking about that game I played in my head about other people and about myself and judging my own behavior and doing things that I knew were maybe slightly iffy and how many points I lost or how many points I gained when I did certain things. And so that became the idea that I just liked the most of the ideas that I had. And I

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

So I had been thinking about that game I played in my head about other people and about myself and judging my own behavior and doing things that I knew were maybe slightly iffy and how many points I lost or how many points I gained when I did certain things. And so that became the idea that I just liked the most of the ideas that I had. And I

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

I just pursued that and thought, all right, this is going to be weird. I'm going to do a half-hour comedy show about moral philosophy, but I don't know, maybe it'll work. I just sort of rolled the dice, and I'm glad I did because the experience of working on it was wonderful. It was a big hit.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

I just pursued that and thought, all right, this is going to be weird. I'm going to do a half-hour comedy show about moral philosophy, but I don't know, maybe it'll work. I just sort of rolled the dice, and I'm glad I did because the experience of working on it was wonderful. It was a big hit.