Matt and Trey Want to Get Fired
The AV Club has the scoop:
AVC: Some people have theorized that you've actively been trying to get fired for years, that your writing is a continual process of "What could we do that Comedy Central just couldn't air, that would be a deal-breaker as far as keeping the show going?
MS: [Laughs.] Yeah! We haven't found it yet. And to be fair to them, by the time a show goes on the air, they've given it the okay, so they're culpable too in the court of public opinion. [Laughs.] Sometimes I wish I could get fired.
AVC: Do you feel pressure to top yourself, to
be more current, to be more outrageous every season?MS: Hmm. No, we don't feel pressure that way. The
overriding pressure we feel… On one hand, I'm feeling less pressure lately. We
have a four-year contract. No one in television has a four-year contract. We have
crazy job security, so it's in our own hands. And so the pressure is more like,
we have this body of work that we're pretty proud of, and we don't want to muck
it up in the last couple of years. Although, obviously, you're trying to get an
emotional charge out of a show that's been around for a while, so you're
looking for fresh snow to clomp around in. We don't feel pressure of, "Let's
make this really raunchy." It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times
harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us. We just really are offensive, raunchy people.
The work part of it is making it have a story and make sense and make it worth
22 minutes of your time, which I feel is a tough thing.
So while we start the cobblin' together o'the disclaimers for tonight's episode, please check out this preview:
And read the rest of the interview here.
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