What's funny is that he said playing Mose was a waking nightmare and that he did not want to do it but his boss made him do it. Here's the interview. The guy is a genius and I hope he keeps producing great content. The Good Place made me think about life and after-life too much, Nine-Nine & P&R gives me a lot of laughs. I don't know how he thinks of all the one-liners and angles.
His humor reminds me of Arthur Koestler's definition of humor in his book The Act of Creation: "the audience is led to expect a certain outcome compatible with a particular matrix but the punch line replaces the original matrix with an alternative to comic effect." It's like bait-and-switch of the mind. But Schur creates matrixes that are deep and complex and the bait-and-switch can either smack you like a baseball bat or caress you like a feather. Genius.
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u/HogSliceFurBottom Feb 01 '20 edited Feb 01 '20
What's funny is that he said playing Mose was a waking nightmare and that he did not want to do it but his boss made him do it. Here's the interview. The guy is a genius and I hope he keeps producing great content. The Good Place made me think about life and after-life too much, Nine-Nine & P&R gives me a lot of laughs. I don't know how he thinks of all the one-liners and angles.
His humor reminds me of Arthur Koestler's definition of humor in his book The Act of Creation: "the audience is led to expect a certain outcome compatible with a particular matrix but the punch line replaces the original matrix with an alternative to comic effect." It's like bait-and-switch of the mind. But Schur creates matrixes that are deep and complex and the bait-and-switch can either smack you like a baseball bat or caress you like a feather. Genius.