Working on Who Is America and Sacha Baron Cohen's Characters

• 22:28Working on Who Is America was fun because Sacha Baron Cohen really delivers the jokes you write for him.
• 22:50Tim was doing an unscripted pilot the same week Who Is America came out and felt intimidated watching how good the show was.
• 23:21The writers on the show had great independent projects that sounded more original and accessible than most network comedy.
• 23:58Sacha's characters are so good and funny that they make Tim laugh more than the situations they're in.
• 24:28Tim doesn't like prank shows where the targets are portrayed as despicable and nine-tenths of people; worst case should just be looking silly.
• 24:46Season two might not happen because the targets know what to expect now and won't take the same risks with their careers.
• 25:01The guests never know they're being pranked—if they have any inkling, they get the fuck out immediately.
• 25:24Tim came in on a show the writers had been developing for like twenty years and had figured out a whole process he didn't need to understand.
• 25:36His job was just to write jokes and let the production team handle where the guests came from and everything else.

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