- [Black] This is where we all live.
- [Wain] Are you just collecting B-roll?
- [Black] This is our apartment.
- [Reporter] Actually, we're gonna be doing both.
Do you have a couple of moments that we can just
talk to you as you change, and stuff like that?
- Sure.
- [Reporter] Well, tell us just about,
as you're changing out from the last skit,
what the whole "Teacher's Lounge" skit was about,
because we were watching you in that.
- 'Cause you took a little B-roll.
- [Reporter] We took a little B-roll.
- I hate to use the lingo, but I know you took B roll,
and I hate to say it, but, you know,
I don't want to use it on television, but you took B-roll.
- [Reporter] We did [laughs].
- [Lo Truglio] Well, I, for one, feel terrible.
Put a gun in his locker?
- [All shouting]
- [Jann] Well, we all met in college.
We all met freshman year at college.
We all — about half of us lived in the same dorm,
and we were the —
everybody auditioned freshman year,
and we were the official comedy group at NYU, originally.
And then, when we graduated, we all decided
that we had a pretty good thing going,
and wanted to continue it and see if, maybe,
we could, you know, make some money off of it.
[Kenney-Silver] David, fix your belt.
- Should I pull it up more?
- [Wain] We were all film and theater students at NYU.
It was natural for us, for everything to be communal,
and democratic, and no hierarchy in the group.
And then, we brought this same structure to a TV show,
which is very unorthodox,
but we're still, so far, managing to do it,
and every creative decision is a decision of 11.
- [Singing] "I wish I was a little..."
- [Singing] "Hairy ass."
- [Singing] "Hairy..." - [Laughs]
- [Lennon] You know, it really should be very,
very terrible, because we're —
- [Kenney-Silver] We spend a lot of time together.
We should hate each other.
- [Lennon] But we haven't had a day off since —
- [Kenney-Silver] In almost a month.
- [Reporter] Really?
- [Lennon] Can't remember the last time —
- That's why we're so vibrant and lively.
- [Reporter] Just excited to see us [laughs].
- Aren't we funny? Aren't we funny?
- [Showalter] Spit it out!
- OK, get this!
"Pornography star Satchel Satin is on a mad killing spree in Central Park."
- Stop the presses! Stop the presses, Vilma!
- [Assistant director] OK, everybody. Relax for a couple of seconds,
'cause we're going for shots on shades.
- [Allison] Everyone in the group writes,
and so, each individual writer has their own material
that they're trying to get in there.
So, there's a lot of deciding what everyone,
as an entire group, finds funny.
And we're always discovering
what we, as 11, find funny together.
- [Lo Truglio] Writing starts usually, always,
before we actually start taping,
and that lasts usually about
six weeks for the cycle.
Then, we'll start putting it up on its feet,
and throughout the whole process, we'll be rewriting.
- [Holoubek] You know, we all write. We all go away,
write on our own, or write in groups,
and come back, bring it in, and then, we all add more.
So, we're all always writing,
always directing, always bringing the pieces together,
throwing our ideas in and stuff.
- [Assistant director] One more time from the top, please.
- [All laughing]
- [Marino] After the first season, did we think that
we would get picked up for another one,
another group of shows?
And my answer is no, I didn't,
but I'm happy that we did,
because I can pay my rent now.
So, that's nice.
- [Lo Truglio] Everyone on the street likes it,
you know? They'll start yelling, "Pudding Guy,"
at us, and Doug, and all that,
but most everyone else in the papers
aren't crazy about us, but we don't care.
- [Reporter] Joe was talking earlier about how
Joe Farber did not give the show a great review.
- It was a "historic mess."
It's actually the most impressive thing that's
ever been said, good or bad, about our show.
I'm very proud about a historic mess.
- Our show is historic. - [Laughs]
- We just cut a new promo. I think it's gonna go on next week, and it's just —
it's us sitting in this very nice field
in the middle of nowhere, very rustic and everything.
We're just sitting there, crying in the middle of
the field as our bad reviews sort of
scroll past the screen.
- [Marino] Tammy, I would like to watch 'Nightline.'
- No, I want to watch VH1.
- Yeah, but Garrison Keillor
is addressing the Press Club tonight.
- It's a Bruce Hornsby weekend!
- Will you stop it!?
She's not gonna let anybody watch anything if you keep this up!
- [Screams] - [Holoubek] Boys!
- [Wain] It's the kind of show that I think people
watch a few times, and then,
they start to really warm up to it
and groove to it, whereas,
sometimes, the initial reactions were like,
"What's this all about?"
- [Jann] And I think our philosophy is really that,
if you make jokes about, like you said, about things that you know,
and things that you've lived through,
like, things that are more pan-generational
or experiences that everybody has,
then these shows will live longer.
Like, I mean, hopefully we would
like these shows to be fresh in —
you know, I mean, this sounds stupid, but maybe in 10 years,
you could still watch these shows, and they'd still be funny,
because they deal with things that are —
themes that are sort of universal.
- [Black] And we're each other's best friends,
and that's what makes coming to work every day so great,
is that, you know, we have a chance to do what we love doing,
get paid for it, with our best friends.
We come to work and play.
I mean, that's our job.
- And here we are, my dressing room.
Ow! Jesus Christ.
Cut! Ow.
Can I get a doctor, or a nurse, or something?
I just totally got a nosebleed, and that's —
- [Reporter] OK, great. Thank you.
- Thank you. Was that alright?
- [Reporter] That's great. - Great!