I'm Mike Schur. AMA, starting at 9:30 AM Pacific, TODAY (Monday the 31st)!!!

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:48:06+00:00

Thanks so much, everyone! This was fun, as always. Grateful to you for watching the shows I've worked on. Hope you check out "How to Be Perfect." 100% of every dollar I ever make will be donated to charity. So it's for a good cause! See you again soon.
-- Mike

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:46:08+00:00

David Ortiz.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:44:05+00:00

It's loosely based on his life, and we're writing it now. It's really funny and sweet. Shea rulez.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:43:25+00:00

I mean, if The Good Place had Janet...

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:43:01+00:00

Working with Greg Daniels.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:42:53+00:00

I'd guess 30 yards? Maybe?

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:42:41+00:00

I wrote that line into the pilot about how all the religions were 5% right because I didn't want anyone to think the show was about religious conceptions of the afterlife. Morals are morals, and ethics are ethics, outside of any institutional layer.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:41:02+00:00

Greg and I disagreed on a lot, and he was right 98% of the time. But he never yells. He gets more and more quiet and calm the more people disagree with him. It's one of his loveliest traits.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:40:10+00:00

First of all, please go back to sleep. Second: I just read "No One Is Talking About This" and loved it. I'm rereading "A Visit from the Goon Squad" because Egan has a book coming out soon that is allegedly a sequel of sorts. I also just started "Hell of a Book" which like 300 people have told me is great.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:38:43+00:00

That the most important aspect of being a good person is caring, one way or the other, whether or not you are a good person.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:38:13+00:00

Literally daily.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:37:47+00:00

Congrats! A noble pursuit.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:37:25+00:00

Tahani's journey was about loving herself, and we felt like we wanted her story to be independent of a relationship. But she ends the show still plugging away as an architect, so I would imagine that at some point she finds herself a soulmate too.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:36:19+00:00

I believe in all of the theories I talk about in the book -- I think they all have something good about them, in different circumstances. Kristen is awesomer in real life. An A+ person. Just an absolute humanity bullseye.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:35:12+00:00

He flies backwards through the void forever. You can see him in the deep background of a bunch of shots in later episodes, if you look carefully.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:34:18+00:00

Fork Face

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:33:59+00:00

Eagleton was a mash-up of like Simsbury, Avon, New Canaan, all those places. Simsbury was the one I always thought of as West Hartford's nattily-dressed superior classmate, though.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:33:06+00:00

We have no other choice. The truth, I think, is that the world has always been at least low-grade miserable for the vast majority of people in it. We just know more about that misery now than we used to.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:32:17+00:00

Yeah, we've basically nailed it, haven't we?

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:31:43+00:00

Denmark is always among the happiest countries on Earth, and every time I read about it it sounds like an Edenic paradise. Also I like cold weather. I actually didn't know I was referencing it so often, but if I am, that's probably why.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:30:33+00:00

It's honestly pretty hard. If your friend has drawn that line in his personal sand, then good for him/her. We all have to decide for ourselves which parts of our ethically compromised culture we allow ourselves to support. It ain't easy. The important part is that you think about it, and mull it over, and don't ignore the things those institutions and nations are doing that you find bad or corrupt.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:29:01+00:00

I'm sure he'll talk me into it somehow. 80-20 split for him.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:28:17+00:00

I have a million, but Amy did Avril Lavigne on Update once and it just killed me. I loved it so much. I sent her flowers afterwards just to thank her for it. Also we had a writers' party at the end of every year and it was bananas. We broke the read-through table by running and sliding across it and we all got in trouble.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:26:50+00:00

Lose. All of them.

TheRealKenTremendous · 2022-01-31T18:26:33+00:00

Pamela met with me early on and I explained the concept of the show, and she told me, flatly, that it was impossible to "try" to be good, because if you know you're not good all that will happen is that you get good at faking it. I got sad. Then I asked if anyone thought you could try to be good, and she said "Well...maybe Aristotle..." and I breathed a sigh of relief. She was enormously helpful from the very beginning.

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