But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.
My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy, but I knew I liked dark comedies.
I think I'm just a little, for a lack of a better word, primal in how I operate in all aspects of life.
The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.
It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.
On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality over quantity.
And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way.
I just don't like filming scenes where it's like, that's not how people talk. People aren't saying a joke every five seconds.
Everybody has their own story or they've been shaped by their upbringing, and we have to love them for what that experience created.
When you go into pre-production on a movie, you can spend weeks and even months working on the nuances of the animatronics on the bear head. If we were to write a sketch about an animatronic bear on 'SNL,' we'd have to come up with every aspect of the suit within 24 hours.
I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of money.
I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.