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I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'