Will Arnett

And then go around the corner downstairs, the underground, and do the first set again.

And just keep working on these various sets.

But always try to track, you know,

his development as a stand-up, um, and so that all of those pieces work.

And not just his development as a stand-up, because those sets are also affected by, uh, where Alex is in our story and where he is in, you know, with his relationship with his, uh, with his estranged wife and all these things.

And they all affect how he performs and how he is on stage.

First of all, when I met John Bishop and he told me this story of how he became a stand-up and, you know—

He is a very successful stand-up in the UK.

He's a really funny guy.

He's a really funny stand-up.

I was drawn less to the idea of him kind of becoming successful out of nowhere, and more to the idea of he found a thing that allowed him to kind of reconnect to himself and his wife.

He had gotten so far down the road in his life, and that he and his partner, his wife, Mel,

He described that there was no big event, that there was nothing, that they had just simply, you know, you can say whatever you want, grew apart or whatever, but they weren't communicating.

And they were frustrated in their lives and they were frustrated with their lot, but they didn't have the language to even talk to each other anymore anymore.

And that was the thing that really got me.

So we ended up, you know, we focused less on, in our story, Alex does not become a famous standup.

John told me recently that for him, you know, that becoming a successful standup was really the icing on the cake of

of which was reconnecting with his wife with Mel.

And so that stuck with me.

I don't think it's uncommon.