Michael Schur

On The Good Place and now on your new series, A Man on the Inside. I love watching him. I think he's like fantastic. What is great about working with him?

On The Good Place and now on your new series, A Man on the Inside. I love watching him. I think he's like fantastic. What is great about working with him?

Your previous series, The Good Place, was all about ethical dilemmas and who gets to go to the equivalent of heaven and who gets sent to the equivalent of hell and how your character and your decisions and your actions are measured to determine that. And you wrote a whole book that's part funny, part serious about philosophy and the great philosophers.

Your previous series, The Good Place, was all about ethical dilemmas and who gets to go to the equivalent of heaven and who gets sent to the equivalent of hell and how your character and your decisions and your actions are measured to determine that. And you wrote a whole book that's part funny, part serious about philosophy and the great philosophers.

Your previous series, The Good Place, was all about ethical dilemmas and who gets to go to the equivalent of heaven and who gets sent to the equivalent of hell and how your character and your decisions and your actions are measured to determine that. And you wrote a whole book that's part funny, part serious about philosophy and the great philosophers.

What made you want to do something like a comedy series that's really about, you know, judging behavior and judging, you know, moral and ethical decisions?

What made you want to do something like a comedy series that's really about, you know, judging behavior and judging, you know, moral and ethical decisions?

What made you want to do something like a comedy series that's really about, you know, judging behavior and judging, you know, moral and ethical decisions?

Which played a bigger role in your life, religion or philosophy, when you were coming of age?

Which played a bigger role in your life, religion or philosophy, when you were coming of age?

Which played a bigger role in your life, religion or philosophy, when you were coming of age?

Oh, one thing I thought was very clever. In the good place, when you're in the part that people think is heaven, you're not allowed to use four-letter words. You're not allowed to use expletives. So if you want to use the F word, you end up saying fork. Right. Now, since you can't use the F word on network television—

Oh, one thing I thought was very clever. In the good place, when you're in the part that people think is heaven, you're not allowed to use four-letter words. You're not allowed to use expletives. So if you want to use the F word, you end up saying fork. Right. Now, since you can't use the F word on network television—

Oh, one thing I thought was very clever. In the good place, when you're in the part that people think is heaven, you're not allowed to use four-letter words. You're not allowed to use expletives. So if you want to use the F word, you end up saying fork. Right. Now, since you can't use the F word on network television—

I thought like that is so clever because everybody will know the intent of the word because it's explained to you why somebody is using a word and then they just keep using it, you know, as necessary. So you're not saying the word, but everybody knows the word that you intend. Like, for instance, when you say fork, everybody knows exactly what you mean.

I thought like that is so clever because everybody will know the intent of the word because it's explained to you why somebody is using a word and then they just keep using it, you know, as necessary. So you're not saying the word, but everybody knows the word that you intend. Like, for instance, when you say fork, everybody knows exactly what you mean.

I thought like that is so clever because everybody will know the intent of the word because it's explained to you why somebody is using a word and then they just keep using it, you know, as necessary. So you're not saying the word, but everybody knows the word that you intend. Like, for instance, when you say fork, everybody knows exactly what you mean.

So is that in part a way of using the language that you wanted to use without having to use it?

So is that in part a way of using the language that you wanted to use without having to use it?

So is that in part a way of using the language that you wanted to use without having to use it?