Kristen Davis

It's super interesting.

Yes, you're absolutely correct.

So Alan is a great guy.

He is super into comic books and whatnot.

He's gone on to run shows that are based on kind of comic novellas.

I don't even know how I should be describing them.

but he's had quite a career in his niche, right?

And I don't know how he came.

I should find Alan and ask him.

I don't know how he came on to our show, but sometimes our writer's room, Michael Patrick King, our executive producer, would kind of just want another voice in, right?

Because mostly we had women and then we had Darren Star and Michael Patrick.

Darren had created the show.

Michael was our showrunner.

And he would think, you know what, we need a straight guy's voice or we need another guy's voice or, you know, whatever.

So he would bring different people in and they might only write one.

Maybe they spent some time in the writer's room just like, you know, talking about ideas, right?

But they would be assigned one.

And this was his baby where he got to just create what he wanted to create.

And what I do remember about the episode, which is so trivial, but the summer before we had been filming in New York and it was one of those crazy hot summers.

You know how some summers are just like,