They've been in rooms of 500 people… You know, Rick is a very experimental comic, who either hits or bombs. It makes us funny.' If they don't, these guys are all going to be okay. It's also very pleasant to be in a situation where they're like, 'Hey, I hope people like the show. When you see a comic that can just do it right away and has the skill set to maybe change the joke and just start playing and not worry if they bomb… These guys have bombed more than any show will ever bomb. I was like, 'Wow, that's a cool skill set!' When I saw the Friends gang and Will & Grace gang, some of them were amazing at it right away. Watching a real pro vibe off a real audience, to me, I'm more amazed by the non-comedians that can do it. I watched Roseanne, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show religiously, and the thing I marveled at was, even when a comic didn't have huge acting skills, they often developed them. My favorite ones, the ones that stood out - that weren't Cheers - were the ones that were boldly built around comics.

You know, we let our guys riff a lot more and speechify a lot more. I know that part of multi-camera is hopefully pleasantly familiar characters and hopefully different comedic situations.

Was that always part of the conception of Undateable? Bill Lawrence: It was part of the pitch. IGN TV: You said that when casting this show, you were really the only ones going after standup comics, unlike the era where so many standups had their own series.

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