Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Five years is a long time to play one part.
Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.
The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.
If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.
I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
Five years on TV is a really, really long time.